As soon as the first ever flowers unfurled from their buds in the early Cretaceous period, they were visited by pollinators.

Cockroaches that catch a ride on ants. Grasshoppers that climb aboard sheep. Hitchhiking animals are more common than you ...

and Mexico. Despite what its name suggests, the New World screwworm is not a worm at all—it is a species of parasitic fly. Female screwworm flies lay their eggs in open wounds, scrapes ...

The drugs take the form of minerals, fungi and especially plants. Often, the drug is ingested for therapeutic reasons, as when chimps eat Velcro-like leaves to scour parasitic worms from their ...

The incessant promotion of economic nationalism by the United Auto Workers union has left some workers vulnerable to the ...

Turkish authorities and British archaeologists are battling over ancient plants that are essential to science—and might hold clues to new superfoods ... Then a fungal-like parasite came along ...

During the 2025 New Mexico Legislative Session, Senate Bill 5 was passed and signed by Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham. Known ...

It’s getting back to the roots of New Mexico’s prized state vegetable. Some of the foremost experts in chile are now helping ...