Tsukuba, Japan—In nature, flowers may share morphological features, even across distantly related species. Bilateral symmetry is one such feature found in flowers of various taxa, such as orchids and ...

How did bilaterally symmetric flowers evolve from radially symmetric ones? To address this important question, geneticists Francisco Perfectti and Juan Pedro M. Camacho, and ecologist José M. Gómez ...

Flowers have an innate ability to bounce back after injury from falling branches or being trampled underfoot, according to a new study. Ecologists looked at a random sample of 23 native and cultivated ...

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PREMISE OF THE STUDY: The evolutionary shift from radial to bilateral symmetry in flowers is generally associated with the evolution of low flower-size variation. This phenomenon supports the ...

Some flowers have a remarkable and previously unknown ability to bounce back after injury, according to a new study. Some flowers have a remarkable and previously unknown ability to bounce back after ...

Some say opposites attract, but as these pictures show, for insects, finding bugs that look remarkably similar can also be pretty alluring. A series of close up images of insects show butterflies and ...