A new sunflower family tree used skimmed genomes to increase the number of species sampled, revealing that flower symmetry evolved multiple times independently, a process called convergent evolution, ...

A sunflower sea star is seen on the ocean floor. They are some of the world’s biggest sea stars. Their habitat ranges from waters from the western tip of the Aleutian Islands to the coast of Baja ...

It’s sunflower season in New England, so now’s the perfect time to go out and get lost among the stalks. Dozens of species of sunflowers grow in Massachusetts, many at family-owned farms. As summer ...