Seeds are the beginning of a plant’s life cycle, but a checklist of crucial steps needs to be taken to start their life cycle ...

It makes great sense many plants flower when the insects and birds so vital to their reproductive success are also getting ...

For many plants, the conditions for growth in spring are close to ideal. Water, warmth and sunlight are suddenly readily ...

September and autumn can be a quiet time for birds in our gardens but they still need our help - and there's one food they ...

September often proves to be a tranquil period for garden birds due to numerous factors. As the lively bustle of spring and ...

When a toucan plucks fruit from a tree in the Amazon Rainforest, it’s doing more than just finding lunch. Moving to a new ...

Don't be disappointed if all the fluffy seeds of a dandelion don't fly away with a single blow. The gust of wind from your lungs may be strong, but the dandelion's natural desire to control how its ...

In the past three decades, poaching has decimated Africa’s now-critically endangered forest elephants, and as a result, their vital role as seed dispersers of many forest plants has been disrupted. A ...

Francis Thackeray has received funding from the National Research Foundation. Global cooling that happened millions of years ago was thought to be the result of ocean currents. He suggests instead it ...