Deep within the Butterfly Botanical Area in Plumas National Forest, thousands of rare California pitcher plants grow in a ...

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A woman recently contacted me for help with landscaping for the healthy population of horned lizards on her property. I didn’t fully understand the connection between horned lizards and landscaping, ...

I walk several miles almost every day. Sadly, one day recently, I discovered someone had been through the area where I live and had put ribbons around non-native woody plants along the roadway and ...

Hydnora is one of the strangest flowering plants ever discovered, a subterranean parasite that survives entirely by draining nutrients from the roots of other plants . It spends most of its life ...

We have no idea what kind of life may exist on other planets, so it’s hard to know what to look for. Proxima Kósmos imagines a very different kind of solar system that could harbor life-forms we haven ...

Astronaut Don Pettit recently shared a photo of a tentacled purple object that set social media ablaze. But this is far from an extraterrestrial threat; it’s actually an earthly treat. The “alien” is ...

A bizarre floating growth on the International Space Station has sent the internet into a frenzy because of its alien-like roots. NASA’s Don Pettit shared a picture of a potato he grew while onboard ...

Follow our live coverage here. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and neighbouring countries in the Persian Gulf region use the fossil fuels under their desert lands not only to make money, but ...

This video examines whether alien plants could actually be blue and what physics says about plant color beyond Earth. It explains how star type, light spectrum, and energy efficiency shape what colors ...

Clusters of hot pink apple snail eggs cling to reeds and cypress trunks, a backdrop fitting for either an alien invasion movie or a Floam commercial. As the snails advance in Louisiana’s waterways, ...

While touring Torrance in November for a newsletter on the South Bay suburb, I noticed an alien-like plant on the corner of an otherwise picturesque street. The blue agave, of tequila harvesting fame, ...