A study on medicinal plants published in Cell highlights the symbiotic relationship between humans and plant species, particularly in the context of medicine. This relationship, which spans millennia, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A goat with an arrow wound nibbles the medicinal herb dittany. O. Dapper, CC BY When a wild orangutan in Sumatra recently suffered ...

Few living things seem to have less in common than plants and animals, but that assumption is being increasingly challenged. Evolution, and the ways in which the kingdom of plants and the kingdom of ...

Of course, humans differ from plants, and also from other animals. But in some ways they are similar. Knowing some of these similarities and differences can help for living a good life. The Importance ...

It’s a phenomenon that was called the Homogenocene even before a similar term growing in popularity, the Anthropocene, was coined in 2000. If the Anthropocene describes a planet transformed by humans, ...

If you go walking in the wild, you might expect that what you're seeing is natural. All around you are trees, shrubs and grasses growing in their natural habitat. But there's something here that doesn ...

Fungi can cause disease in humans, animals and plants. Every year, 1.5 million people die from fungal infections, and fungal attacks in food crops threaten food production. To protect ourselves, we ...

May 24 (UPI) --Animals self-medicate with plants − behavior people have observed and emulated for millennia A goat with an arrow wound nibbles the medicinal herb dittany. O. Dapper, CC BY Adrienne ...