Moss is ancient. It evolved some 470 million years ago, long before the first dinosaur hatched. It is so rudimentary that it ...

The earliest case the team found was from 1929, when the growth rate of mosses on a decomposing skeleton helped investigators ...

We meet Dr Pina Milne, a botanist who takes us into the fascinating, tiny and forgotten world of “bryophytes”; plants like mosses, liverworts and hornworts “Bryophytes” is the word used to describe ...

Moss may look insignificant, but it can carry a hidden forensic fingerprint. Because different moss species thrive in very ...

Bryophytes are widespread, morphologically distinctive, and resilient, with fragments that easily attach to shoes, clothing, or other surfaces. These characteristics make them particularly effective ...

Forget your favorite flowers, because we’re talking all about the mean green sporing machines. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we dive into the first few branches of plants’ phylogenetic ...

Non-vascular bryophytes live in colonies that cover the ground and resemble tiny forests. In a real forest, plants compete for light in different layers of the canopy. If a plant does not receive ...

Discover the unsung heroes of nature, bryophytes, the tiny yet mighty plants that rescue our environment. Non-vascular and adaptable, they thrive in diverse climates, preventing floods, erosion, and ...

PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Tradeoffs among functional traits of vascular plants are starting to be better understood, but it is unclear whether bryophytes possess similar tradeoffs or how trait ...