Trees are essential to life on Earth. They support ecosystems, store carbon, provide clean water, improve our health, and ...

Snakes (Serpentes) live almost everywhere on Earth, except the polar regions, which are too cold for these cold-blooded ...

It’s hard to overestimate the importance of fungi—and easy to understate how little we know about them. Scientists have described a little over 100,000 different species, while estimating that ...

Scotch broom is a yellow, flowering shrub introduced to North America for ornamental purposes and later used to combat soil erosion. According to the National Park Service, the invasive species grows ...

If you're tired of your houseplants dying, make the switch to Lego flowers and plants. They're fun to build, require no water, and make great gifts.

Species like spotted lanternflies, zebra mussels and wild pigs are popping up around the commonwealth. Here's how to handle them.

Here are the invasive bugs, plants and animals to look out for this summer and how you can limit their spread: What insects are invasive in Kentucky? The University of Kentucky Department of ...

Many plant natural products are ancestry-specific and occur only in certain plant families, sometimes only in a single species. Interestingly, however, the same substances can sometimes be found ...

The timber rattler is a protected species, and it can grow to 4.5 feet or more. These snakes mostly live in the rocky, hilly, cliff areas along the Wisconsin and Mississippi rivers in the ...

Temperate deciduous forests are most notable because they go through four seasons: Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall. Leaves change color (or senesce) in autumn, fall off in the winter, and grow back ...