Read about the Jurassic extinction event that wiped out many species at the beginning of this Period and led to the rise of the dinosaurs.

The Mesozoic Era extinctions formed the world as we know it today. Read about what caused them and which animals survived.

Fossils unearthed during construction of a water pipeline in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia have revealed one of the oddest ...

Long before the asteroid hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs, many mammals had already started living on the ground, ...

A research team has uncovered the mechanism and underlying reason behind the transformation of residual cells into epidermal ...

A new review of Triassic fossils from Germany reveals rich tetrapod diversity and links to modern biodiversity and climate ...

Paleontologists have discovered fossils of two unknown conifer species dating back 100 million years in central-western Portugal. A team of paleontologists from the University of Coimbra made a ...

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Botany is the study of plants. Plants are organisms made up of cells, and by characteristics, are defined as life. The unique defining cells of a plant have cell walls made of cellulose and ...

27, 2025 — Scientists have uncovered a surprising role for calcium in shaping the building blocks of life. Their study reveals ... so-called Green Sahara, a period when the largest desert ...

However, did you know that there are a few parasitic plants occurring in our part of Northcentral Texas and Southwestern Oklahoma? There’s also a plant often mistaken as a parasite because of ...