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 ...

Paleontologists hope that an amber-like material, made with living tree resin, will shed light on the prehistoric ...

The detective work continued as they went in search of a living species ... of the old and new fossils. That search proved fruitless, so they looked to extinct plant species and still came up ...

However, a region of the mountainous Turpan-Hami Basin in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region in Western China may have been an oasis for some living ... fossils suggest that some Mesozoic plants ...

We will combine the data with the results from experiments with living Ginkgo trees (see below ... any conclusions we draw about past climate from the fossil leaves. Scott is curator of fossil plants ...

The earliest known fossil of a terrestrial plant that shows almost its entire structure has gone on display for the first time in the world at an exhibition in Tokyo. Although it was discovered ...

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.