Research by Assistant Professor Jacob S. Suissa at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is revealing complexity in how ferns have evolved. Instead of the vascular structure inside fern stems ...

Analyses of genetic material from a multitude of fern species suggest that much of that plant group branched out millions of years after flowering plants appeared, a notion that contradicts many ...

A remarkably preserved, 180-million-year-old fossilized fern has been unearthed in Sweden. The fern was in such pristine condition that its tiny cellular parts were intact, according to a study ...