There is a rare plant growing in Australia, but it's exact whereabouts have not been revealed. You'll be able to tell what it ...

PORTLAND, Ore.—The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Thursday to protect the ...

The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today to protect the Ochoco lomatium under ...

Egyptologists think that these riotous rituals were fueled by wine that had been infused with psychedelic blue lotus.

A tiny, woolly flower found hiding in Texas’s Big Bend National Park shows the intriguing strangeness of sunflowers ...

Few plants are more celebrated in Egyptian mythology than the blue lotus, a stunning water lily that stars in some of ...

A medical student who lost limbs to meningitis has had a rare hand transplant to help her become a doctor. Becca Heritage had been enjoying her first weeks at University of Southampton when she ...

Imagine waiting 12 whole years just to witness a single bloom. It is quite as dramatic as it sounds. In the Western Ghats, a rare flower blooms only once in a decade and some change—the Neelakurinji ...

chief medical examiner at the New Mexico medical investigator’s office, said at a news conference. The condition is rare but deadly — with a mortality rate between 38% and 50% among those ...

Gene Hackman's wife died from a rare infectious disease around a week before the actor died, medical investigators have said. The couple were found dead in their New Mexico home on 26 February ...