The limestone walls in this parish are festooned with luminous mosses, in a variety that’s often beyond our comprehension ...

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 ...

Moss was used to lead law enforcement to the body of a murdered child in 2013. Botanist Matt von Konrat at Chicago’s Field Museum believes bryophytes’ tenacity can make them valuable witnesses at the ...

Large mammals and exotic plants get all the attention, and conservation efforts are often directed at protecting them. Who who protects our mosses? This often-neglected group of non-vascular lower ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Tiny plants, like moss, are easy to overlook. They're often as small as an eyelash, and they tend to grow on the ground in dark, wet places. But these small plants sometimes turn out to be big clues ...

Bryophytes, comprising mosses, liverworts and hornworts, possess a unique and diverse chemical repertoire that has attracted increasing research attention. Their natural products include an array of ...

The ecological value of bryophytes as indicators of climate change / Nancy G. Slack -- Bryophyte physiological processes in a changing climate: an overview / Zoltán Tuba -- Climatic responses and ...