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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...