Plants are everywhere, but what is a plant? A plant has special parts. They need sunlight, water, nutrients, and carbon dioxide and use photosynthesis to create sugars and oxygen. There are many different types of plants. Because plants can't move the way animals do, they have to have different solutions to their problems.

Kidney bean time-lapse with soil cross section. Showing how roots and upper part of plant grows.

Witness dozens of different types of flowers unfurling in this stunning time-lapse video from filmmaker David de los Santos Gil. He used 5,000 out of 50,000 shots of his floral subjects for the final video, which was filmed over a period of nine months.