For some unknown reason, the tree ferns prevailed, he says, and eventually took over the world's tropical wetland forests.Two-thirds of the species found in Riola-Vermilion Grove would vanish.

There are approximately 12,000 fern species growing worldwide, most of them found in forests, woodlands or tropical regions.

Cloud forests are biodiversity hot spots and crucial water sources. But climate change and deforestation are shrinking their range, new data show.

The popularity of Boston ferns, which dates back to the Victorian era, has lasted until the present. The ferns are a common ...

Sea monsters, sharks, and blood-red plankton. Forests of ferns, cycads, and conifers. Warm, moist, tropical breezes. This was the Jurassic, which took place 199 to 145 million years ago.

As its name suggests, Kaua'i's Fern Grotto is a natural lava rock grotto covered in hanging ferns and tropical foliage ... a short nature walk through the rainforest full of native Hawaiian ...

In our studies we focus on two main islands of the Mascarene Islands - Mauritius and Réunion - as an example of fern diversification on geologically-young tropical oceanic islands. The results of this ...