Recent advances in molecular phylogenetics and a series of important palaeobotanical discoveries have revolutionized our understanding of angiosperm diversification. Yet, the origin and early ...

For many years, Charles Darwin was haunted by flowers. In 1859, the naturalist published his most famous work, On the Origin of Species, the book that is generally regarded as the foundation of ...

Here we discuss recent advances surrounding the origin of angiosperms. Putatively primitive characters are now much better understood because of a vastly improved understanding of angiosperm ...

Two species of aquatic angiosperms, Aquatifolia fluitans gen. et sp. nov. and Brasenites kansense gen. et. sp. nov., are reported from the Hoisington III locality, Barton County, Kansas. On the basis ...

International Journal of Plant Sciences, Vol. 161, No. S6, Current Perspectives on Basal Angiosperms (November 2000), pp. S97-S107 (11 pages) Patterns and trends in angiosperm evolution can only be ...

The discovery of exceptionally well-preserved, tiny fossil seeds dating back to the Early Cretaceous corroborates that flowering plants were small opportunistic colonizers at that time, according to a ...

Fossils of angiosperms first appear in the fossil record about 140 million years ago. Based on the material in which these fossils are deposited, early angiosperms must have been weedy, fast-growing ...

They are very tiny, but they are a key source of information when it comes to Earth's evolutionary history: pollen grains are usually no larger than 20 micrometers, or 0.02 millimeters. Using these ...

A tiny flower pressed between layers of sandstone for more than 160 million years could be the oldest flower fossil ever found, a new study reports. However, not everyone agrees that the fossil ...

ARGUABLY the world’s weirdest plant, Welwitschia mirabilis is a tangled mass of shredded, fraying leaves in the Namib desert. For a thousand years, perhaps more, it grows just two long leaves, which ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. That's what scientists found after analyzing 70 fossils of wing scales and scale fragments ...