An “alien plant” fossil discovered 55 years ago just outside of an abandoned town in Utah has no relation to any currently existing or extinct species, scientists revealed in a study last month.

The tropics and subtropics, collectively the Greater Tropics, are home to most of Earth’s biodiversity and humanity, and are undergoing unprecedented transformations driven by global change. In this ...

A plant that lived 47 million years ago in what is now Utah is like nothing that lives on planet Earth today. The discovery of new fossils reveals that a species first found in 1969 is not a member of ...

A lot of people think of plants as pretty to look at, but defenceless and passive as far as organisms go. However, the many alien species – or “monster plants” – around us show we should never ...

Due to anthropogenic pressure some species have declined whereas others have increased within their native ranges. Simultaneously, many species introduced by humans have established self-sustaining ...

An international research team led by the University of Vienna has produced, for the first time, high-resolution global maps of invasion risk for thousands of alien plant species under current ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...