"[Our] analyses suggest that several key elements of cactus ecological function were established prior to the evolution of the cactus life form," explain the authors. "Such a sequence may be ...

Fossils of a 10-legged wormy creature that lived 520 million years ago may fill an important gap in the history of the evolution of insects, spiders and crustaceans. The so-called walking cactus ...

The team has constructed the largest ever evolution tree of cacti using copious DNA sequences. To understand the interplay of various biological factors contributing to cactus diversity ...