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

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

Holiday moss is turning out to be more than a rustic backdrop for candles and nativity scenes. By trapping fragments of ...

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 ...

Moss has long been treated as background scenery, a green blur on rocks and roofs, yet it is quietly overturning assumptions ...

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 ...

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 ...