Amber with well-preserved fossils found in Ecuador gives insight into a 112-million-year-old Cretaceous ecosystem during the ...

For many years, Charles Darwin was haunted by flowers. In 1859, the naturalist published his most famous work, On the Origin of Species, the book that is generally regarded as the foundation of ...

Flowering plants are masters at producing terpenes, the largest and most structurally diverse group of natural compounds, which influence everything ...

Here we discuss recent advances surrounding the origin of angiosperms. Putatively primitive characters are now much better understood because of a vastly improved understanding of angiosperm ...

I. There is an intimate connection between the type of nodal anatomy (one, three or many traces and gaps) and the occurrence of stipules and similar structures in dicotyledons. In the majority of ...

International Journal of Plant Sciences, Vol. 161, No. S6, Current Perspectives on Basal Angiosperms (November 2000), pp. S97-S107 (11 pages) Patterns and trends in angiosperm evolution can only be ...

Fossils of angiosperms first appear in the fossil record about 140 million years ago. Based on the material in which these fossils are deposited, early angiosperms must have been weedy, fast-growing ...

The discovery of exceptionally well-preserved, tiny fossil seeds dating back to the Early Cretaceous corroborates that flowering plants were small opportunistic colonizers at that time, according to a ...

Angiosperms produce flowers and fruits, which contain their seeds. Scientists think they have the answer to a puzzle that baffled even Charles Darwin: How flowers evolved and spread to become the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. That's what scientists found after analyzing 70 fossils of wing scales and scale fragments ...