Evolutionarily speaking, the ultimate goal of a lifeform is to reproduce and stave off extinction. Many plants and animals ...

A rare yam species, Dioscorea melanophyma, spreads its clones by fooling birds with fake berries, helping it survive without seeds.

Australian researchers have uncovered how a particular strain of a diarrhea-causing parasite managed to infect more animal species, offering new insights into how parasitic infections emerge and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock As time goes on, invasive species spread farther across the globe and cause damage to both the environment ...

Some plants bend the rules of plant life so far that they barely resemble plants at all. Balanophora is one of them — a parasite that lives underground, lacks chlorophyll, and in some cases reproduces ...

As time goes on, invasive species spread farther across the globe and cause damage to both the environment and the economy. One such species is the Obama flatworm, which has been spotted for the first ...