It sounds like a nice joke, doesn't it? The idea that your peace lily is gossiping with your fern, or the tomato plants are coordinating their growth spurts. Well, it's not a joke at all. Plants have ...

In the 1960s and '70s, a series of questionable experiments claimed to prove that plants could behave like humans, that they had feelings, responded to music and could even take a polygraph test.

In the fantastical world created by J.R.R. Tolkien, there exist giant plant-like creatures called Ents. Though they look like regular trees, they can walk and move at will. Ents can distance ...