Stomach contents of Otzi the Iceman have revealed clues about the food he had eaten hours before he was killed during an ambush attack about 5,300 years ago. Wild Meat, Whole Wheat Seeds, And Toxic ...

Take a walk in the Catalina Mountains this month and you’ll likely see plants similar to those you might have seen if you could have wandered through a mountain forest 100 million years ago. They are ...

Ferns are not a very popular food item for the animal kingdom. Compared to the herbivorous insects on flowering plants and conifers, relatively few insects eat ferns. One estimate is there is about ...

Q: I am looking to do a mass planting of ferns. The least expensive way to go is to buy bare root ferns online. I’m looking at beech fern, autumn fern, cinnamon fern and bracken fern.Dave Green, ...

Bracken Ferns are rising on the higher mountains of San Diego County, their bright green, unfolding fronds (called “fiddleheads”) pushing up through the russet remains of last year’s growth. By late ...