Hummingbird pollination helped pineapples and other bromeliads evolve into one of the world's most diverse plant families.

High above the rainforest floor, tiny ponds form in the leaves of plants perched on tree branches. Frogs breed in these ponds ...

Hummingbirds play a crucial role in accelerating the evolution of bromeliads, leading to a faster emergence of new species.

Hummingbirds make bromeliad plants split into new species twice as fast as other pollinators do, scientists at the University of Reading have found. The research team gathered records of which animals ...

Hummingbirds in California are rapidly evolving. Within just a century, perhaps even just a few decades, their beaks have been getting pointier and pokier. Scientists believe the (relatively) rapid ...