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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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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Ecology and evolutionary biology suggest that closely related species are more likely to exhibit morphological and functional similarities compared to distantly related species. Each tree species represents a unique genetic ...
Evolution
May 13, 2024
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Flowers may look delicate—but flowering plants, what scientists call angiosperms, are one of the most successful evolutionary organisms on the planet. Including more than 350,000 known species, they dominate the ecological ...
Evolution
Apr 10, 2024
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Flowers play an essential role in maintaining a species' genetic stability. Understanding how flowers regulate water use strategies to adapt to their environment is crucial for better understanding floral evolution and plant-pollinator-environment ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 22, 2024
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If you looked up 66 million years ago you might have seen, for a split second, a bright light as a mountain-sized asteroid burned through the atmosphere and smashed into Earth. It was springtime and the literal end of an ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Sep 16, 2023
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Flowering plants (angiosperms) are the largest, most diversified, and most successful major lineage of green plants, with ~330,000 known species. In the past decade, the accelerated development of high-throughput sequencing ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 5, 2022
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The renowned Apple Bay fossil locality of northern Vancouver Island is helping us reimagine seed plant diversity in the Early Cretaceous, the last of three geologic periods comprising the Mesozoic Era.
Paleontology & Fossils
Jun 14, 2022
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Angiosperms may be distinguished from their gymnosperm peers by their flowers, and thus a flower is a good proxy of fossil angiosperms.
Paleontology & Fossils
Jan 13, 2022
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Researchers have reconstructed phylogenetic relationships among all 706 families of land plants.
Evolution
Apr 5, 2012
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