Moss quietly collects DNA from animals, plants, and microbes, offering a simple way to track biodiversity without harming ...

Learn how scientists found that moss is hiding years of valuable animal and plant DNA, even some from rare species.

Moss has long been treated as background scenery, a green blur on rocks and roofs, yet it is quietly overturning assumptions about how life began on land, how it survives in extremes, and even how ...

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 ...

Louisianians are probably familiar with Spanish moss, but they may not be aware of ball moss. Like Spanish moss, ball moss is an epiphyte and belongs to the family Bromeliaceae, said LSU AgCenter ...

Researchers have established the world's largest collection of moss species for the peat industry and science. Peatlands with their huge diversity of peat moss species store about 30 percent of the ...

Bacteria adhering to three unrelated species of wild moss growing in similar or different habitats were isolated on a nonselective medium and tested for their effect on protonemal growth and ...

A study by the Chinese Academy of Sciences identified a super resilient desert moss species, Syntrichia Caninervis, that could help sustain possible colonies on Mars. Even after losing more than 98% ...

Right now, many of us have a bit of moss sitting in our Christmas decorations at home. Some of us picked it ourselves in the ...

New findings shed light on the mechanisms behind a natural purification process and identify the key microbial "teammates" ...