Some of the more well known leaf-mimicking insects include some katydids ... The World Wide Fund for Nature lists all the Uroplatus species on their "Top ten most wanted species" list of animals ...

Scientists made fake leaves and dropped them in water tanks to observe how different shapes move as they sink.

Leaf development describes the coordinated morphogenesis process by which a leaf is formed, and grows to become a mature photosynthetic organ. It starts from the initiation of a primordium in the ...

So, as a bookend to the fall foliage season, in the spring, the green comes first. Young leaves are light green with their ...

Leaf arrangement with one leaf per node is called ... to explain why this particular shape seems to appear everywhere in nature. “Our model, EDC2, can generate orixate patterns in addition ...

Producing an artificial leaf capable of harnessing Mother Nature’s ability to produce energy from sunlight and water via photosynthesis has been a long-sought goal for researchers aspiring to ...