Researchers have described six species of ferns new to science from the tropical forests of Panama, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, all in the genus Danaea. The ferns range in height from 20 centimeters ...

"When the ferns dry out, the thick mats act as the ideal fuel to trigger massive wildfires," Van de Schootbrugge explains. Fast-spreading pioneer and weeding ferns created extensive fern savannahs.

The ferns and their relatives first appear in the fossil record some 360 million years ago in the late Devonian period. They diversified into many of the modern fern families and species during the ...

DUMMERSTON — The Vermont Woodlands Association (VWA) and the Dummerston Conservation Commission are sponsoring a fern identification workshop with Lynn Levine, of Nature Connect. The workshop will be ...

It’s June, the rush of spring wildflowers is over, and now’s the time to look at ferns. There are more than 60 species in the state, some of them very rare, others in every county. They range in size ...

Social colonies are nothing new in the animal kingdom. We know bees, ants and termites live in large colonies, divide labour and co-operate to take care of offspring produced by a single queen. This ...