Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This August, one Instagrammer was excited to show the internet an interesting explosive native plant she came across in nature.

When it’s time for the hairyflower wild petunia to pass its genes to the next generation, it does it with a bang. To reproduce, the plants flings tiny seeds from a small torpedo-shape fruit more than ...

Scientists have discovered a tropical “dynamite tree” that explosively launches seeds at 150 mph. The mechanism uses physics, ...