But wet rainforest floors are prime habitat for mosses, which the UK-based Mr Callaghan travels the world to photograph. “Tasmania in particular is globally important for bryophytes [mosses and ...

Extensive recent collections of tropical and subtropical bryophytes have been made over the last 60 years, many by museum bryologists. Most significantly, these include material from Malaysia, ...

The Beaty Biodiversity Museum is an objectively strange place for an art exhibit. The building, more bunker than gallery, is ...

I directly manage the Moss Herbarium which, with over 700,000 specimens, is one of the largest collections of its kind in the world and represents a critical source of biodiversity data. I have ...

That’s because mosses, or bryophytes, aren’t like typical plants. They don’t have true roots or a vascular system for moving food and water. They photosynthesize through their tissue ...