Fossil of Gansufructus saligna gen. et sp. nov. showing branches, leaves as well as terminal fruits in different stages of maturity. Scale bars: 1.0 cm. In his vast correspondence with other ...

Paleontologists may be on the verge of solving one of the great mysteries in the history of life on our planet – the origin of angiosperms, the flowering plants. The importance of angiosperms cannot ...

Early angiosperms represent a pivotal chapter in plant evolution, marked by rapid diversification and profound ecological impact during the Early Cretaceous. These flowering plants, distinguished by ...

Machine generated contents note: Preface; 1. Introduction to angiosperms; 2. The nature of the angiosperm fossil record; 3. The environmental context of early angiosperm evolution; 4. Stratigraphic ...

Researchers have uncovered the earliest example of a flower bud in a 164 million-year-old plant fossil in China. The discovery firmly pushes back the emergence of flowering plants into the Jurassic ...

The centerpiece of the Swedish Museum of Natural History, in Stockholm, is probably the Fossils and Evolution hall, in which an enormous Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton seems to yawn over crowds of ...

Newly discovered plant fossils from China, dating back more than 125 million years, may help to establish which seed plants evolved into modern flowering plants. Flowering plants, known as angiosperms ...

When Sir Peter Crane began his career as a paleontologist in the early 1980s, he was one of few people who focused on fossil flowers. They were rarely preserved, or so went the conventional wisdom.