About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and bounced back faster.

Often described as a "living fossil," this small woody plant grows only on New Caledonia, a South Pacific island famous among botanists for its primeval flora. But we don't have an Amborella from ...

The researchers studied both fossils’ features and searched for living plant families with any similarities. Unlike the 1969 fossil, the UC Berkeley specimen had leaves, flowers, and fruits ...

The Oldest Fossilized Skin Ever Found Predates the Dinosaurs These Prehistoric Plant Fossils Are Actually Baby Turtles in ...

This makes them an ideal plant to study because they can provide a record from over 200 million years ago through to the present. We are collecting and imaging lots of modern and fossil Ginkgo ...

A few species of these "living fossils" still survive today ... There is also evidence that the first primitive plants began to appear on the previously barren land. These first steps toward ...

Ideally, underground microbes, burrowing animals, and plant roots do not disturb ... Without context, scientists cannot relate a fossil to other living or fossil organisms. Understanding change ...

Scientists recently uncovered Asia's oldest known fossil of an ornithischian dinosaur with an impressive 193 million years old age belonging to a plant-eater species named Archaeocursor asiaticus.

Nonetheless, we know from fossil and comparative evidence that it was much more similar to living apes than to living ... have consisted almost entirely of plant foods, primarily fruit and leaves.