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 ...

Archaefructus liaoningensis would never have made the cover of Better Homes & Gardens or Martha Stewart Living. But in 1998, this ancient plant discovered in the fossil beds of Liaoning Province ...

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 ...

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.

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.