New study of fossil plants shows the emergence of the Pacific Northwest's temperate forests
The iconic evergreen forests of the Pacific Northwest haven't always been here.
Archaeology
Feb 15, 2019
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News tagged with fossil flowers
Australian fossil reveals new plant species
Antoine Champreux, a Ph.D. student in the Global Ecology Lab at Flinders University, has cataloged the discovery of the new fern-like plant species as part of an international effort to examine the Australian fossil in greater ...
Archaeology
Jun 16, 2020
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Study names new genus of 125-million-year-old eudicot from China
(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Florida researcher has helped describe the earliest known fossil remains of a flowering plant from China that has a direct evolutionary relationship with most plants humans depend on today.
Archaeology
Mar 30, 2011
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First rainforests arose when plants solved plumbing problem
A team of scientists, including several from the Smithsonian Institution, discovered that leaves of flowering plants in the world's first rainforests had more veins per unit area than leaves ever had before. They suggest ...
Plants & Animals
May 3, 2011
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The co-evolution of plants and mammals examined
A report at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in Raleigh, North Carolina, explores the idea that the evolution of flowering plants (angiosperms) during the Cretaceous Period had a profound ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 23, 2012
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The world's first flowers were pollinated by insects, says new study
Plants existed on Earth for hundreds of millions of years before the first flowers bloomed. But when flowering plants did evolve, more than 140 million years ago, they were a huge evolutionary success.
Evolution
Jun 6, 2023
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Molecular study could push back angiosperm origins
Flowering plants may be considerably older than previously thought, says a new analysis of the plant family tree.
Plants & Animals
Mar 15, 2010
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Unbiased statistical analysis of insect fossil records finds diversity unchanged over the past 125 million years
Insects are astonishingly diverse, accounting for nearly three-quarters of all named animal species living today, and their diversity is widely thought to have increased steadily over evolutionary time. A new study, however, ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 2, 2016
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Paleontologist reflects on Darwinian connections
(PhysOrg.com) -- As the former director and chief executive of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in England, Sir Peter Crane often walked in the footsteps of Charles Darwin.
Jan 30, 2009
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Can the morphology of fossil leaves tell us how early flowering plants grew?
Fossils and their surrounding matrix can provide insights into what our world looked like millions of years ago. Fossils of angiosperms, or flowering plants (which are the most common plants today), first appear in the fossil ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 23, 2010
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