This story appears in the March 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine ... suffered the ultimate indignity for an animal: It has been killed by a plant. The swampy pine savanna within a ...

As a food source flowering plants provide us and the rest of the animal world with the nourishment that is fundamental to our existence. In the words of Walter Judd, a botanist at the University ...

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National ... one of hundreds of plants disappearing as invasive flora crowd out Hawaii’s native species and introduced animals (such as wild ...

This story appears in the August 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Tropical plants aren’t abundant ... Nor are the planet’s most diverse animals, insects. Even so, Montreal-based ...

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. When you conjure up “extinction” in your mind’s eye, you probably see an animal—a dodo, perhaps, or a ...