Biology professor gets $863,000 grant | The life
Dr. Tilottama Roy, an assistant professor of biology at Missouri Western State University, has received an $863,000 National Science Foundation...
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Make your flower garden the envy of the neighborhood
Barb Laschkewitsch is a busy woman. As a trial garden manager for North Dakota State University's (NDSU) Horticulture Research and...
Main problems with evolution: speciation
Photo: Hemp-nettle, by Ivar Leidus, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Editor's Note: We are delighted to present a series...
Oldest flower bud ever discovered, massively changing plant evolution timeline
The oldest known fossil of a flower bud has been discovered by researchers in China, pushing back the evolution of...
164 Million Year Old Fossil Changes Everything We Know About Plant Evolution
According to the scientists, the revelation changes our understanding of angiosperm development. Scientists have discovered the oldest form of a...
164-million-year-old plant fossil is the oldest example of a flower bud
The Fossilized Florigerminis jurassica plant with definite stem, bulbous fruit and fossilized flower bud (marked by the white arrow). (Image...
Fossil plants could help this South African solve a 200-year-old puzzle
Paleobotanist Aviwe Matiwane on site (Onder Karoo, South Africa), finding fossil plants. Rose Prevec Paleobotanist Aviwe Matiwane is working in...
Fossil Plants Provide Clues to Changing Environments of Tennessee’s Past | News
The Gray Fossil Site in Gray, Tennessee is famous for preserving remnants of a 5 million year old Appalachian ecosystem....
New fossil pushes physical evidence for insect pollination to 99 million years: News at IU: Indiana University
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A new study co-led by researchers in the United States and China has pushed back the earliest...
New fossil find pushes back evidence of insect pollination to a time when pterodactyls still roamed the skies
Here is an artist's impression of A. burmitina feeding on eudicot flowers. Credit: Illustration by Ding-hau Yang A new study...
Discover past climates through paleobotany
Paleontology has long offered scientists insight into the mysteries of prehistory. Through excavations of colossal skeletons, petrified insects and fossilized...
Controversy erupts over first flower fossil
A small flower pressed between layers of sandstone for more than 160 million years could be the oldest flower fossil...
Exciting Discovery: Over One Hundred Genera of Eocene Fossil Plants | Paleontology
A survey of the extensive Middle Eocene fruit and seed collections at the Messel Fossil Site in Germany revealed 140...