The discovery of an 80-million-year-old fossil plant pushes back the known origins of lamiids to the Cretaceous, extending the fossil record of nearly 40,000 species of flowering plants. The lamiids ...

The Early Cretaceous period witnessed a remarkable diversity of gnetalean plants, with fossil discoveries shedding new light on the morphology, ecology and evolutionary history of this enigmatic group ...

What if the coffee you drink and the potatoes you eat today have a hidden survival story dating back 80 million years? An ancient fossil recently discovered in California has turned the history of key ...

Researchers re-examined a plant fossil found decades ago in Colombia and realized that it wasn't a plant at all: it's a fossilized baby turtle. It's a rare find, because juvenile turtles' shells are ...

1. Fossils : a time capsule -- 2. The Cretaceous : a time of change -- 3. Herbivory -- 4. Dinosaurs competing with insects -- 5. Did dinosaurs or insects "invent" flowering plants? -- 6. Pollination - ...

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The discovery of an 80-million-year-old fossil plant pushes back the known origins of lamiids to the Cretaceous, extending the record of nearly 40,000 species of flowering plants including modern-day ...