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 ...

It’s easy to forget that time can stand still…at least for some remarkable creatures and plants. Imagine walking through an ...

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 ...

Like the clubmosses (see Plant Evolution I), the ferns are early vascular plants ... at their bases while its fertile fronds are cinnamon-colored. This fern is a “living fossil,” seen in the fossil ...

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 ...

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 ...

When they died, the plants and animals were ... Rare but highly informative are fossils created by a sudden event, like a volcanic eruption, that traps living things or, in the famous case in ...

It sometimes takes a living fossil to make some of the most interesting findings about life and evolution. A relative of mosses, the liverwort Marchantia is one of the oldest existing plant forms ...

Georgia Power Plant Bowen and Scherer are coal-fired power plants granted by Trump EPA a 2 year exemption from emission ...

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 ...