American Journal of Botany, Vol. 104, No. 2 (February 2017), pp. 322-334 (13 pages) PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Plants preserved in different fossil modes provide complementary data concerning the ...
These 270-million-year-old fossils from Texas (top) show that early conifers produced a variety of winged seeds to aid dispersal by the wind. Cindy Looy and her team made identical models (bottom) to ...
Some trees are good for tree-houses. Some trees are not. Guess which category this one fits into? It’s a conifer, and like all conifers will produce no flowers. Rather the seeds (and pollen) are ...
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Researchers in western Tasmania have unearthed a collection of plant fossils, including two newly identified conifer species that were part of a “polar forest” dating back 53 million years. These ...
The fossil record of Patagonia offers an extraordinary window into the evolution of southern hemispheric vegetation, chronicling major shifts in plant diversity through time. Extensive studies in ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Money-puzzle tree, seen here at a botanical garden in Frankfurt, Germany, is one of about 20 closely related species, all ...
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