The Connecticut State Museum of Natural History showcased a variety of moss species and adaptations at the Mansfield Public Library on Saturday, Sept. 20. The event, “A Window Into the Universe of ...

The world’s oldest moss, called Takakia, has persisted in some of Earth’s most extreme environments for millions of years. And despite the fact that this ancient plant is one of the fastest-evolving ...

The tropics, where biodiversity and interactions among species abound, provide an alternative view of relationships between plants and animals and their habitats. Most ecologists like to visit ...

Meet Takakia lepidozioides, an inconspicuous yet remarkable moss species that has defied the odds through multiple catastrophic climate events, including the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. This ...

Mosses were among the first land plants to evolve out of the ocean roughly 450 million years ago. They grow everywhere, from the world’s harshest landscapes to cracks in the sidewalk. This episode of ...