International Journal of Plant Sciences, Vol. 180, No. 2 (FEBRUARY 2019), pp. 93-127 (35 pages) Premise of research. Small angiosperm fossils are diverse in Early Cretaceous mesofossil floras from ...

Their fossils are left in the form of imprints in sedimentary rock layers, whole skeletons or single bones fossilised within ...

The discovery of an 80-million-year-old fossil plant pushes back the known origins of lamiids to the Cretaceous, extending the record of nearly 40,000 species of flowering plants including modern-day ...

April 12 (UPI) --A newly discovered mid-Cretaceous amber fossil suggests an early beetle species, Pelretes vivificus, visited flowering plants and ate their pollen. Today, the majority of pollination ...

The asteroid impact 66 million years ago that ushered in a mass extinction and ended the dinosaurs also killed off many of the plants that they relied on for food. Fossil leaf assemblages from ...

What if the coffee you drink and the potatoes you eat today have a hidden survival story dating back 80 million years? An ancient fossil recently discovered in California has turned the history of key ...

The renowned Apple Bay fossil locality of northern Vancouver Island is helping us reimagine seed plant diversity in the Early Cretaceous, the last of three geologic periods comprising the Mesozoic Era ...

The discovery of an 80-million-year-old fossil plant pushes back the known origins of lamiids to the Cretaceous, extending the fossil record of nearly 40,000 species of flowering plants. The lamiids ...