A "strange" prehistoric plant species is the lone representative of a mysterious group of organisms that no longer exists, scientists have discovered. The first evidence of the species—in the form of ...

A plant that lived 47 million years ago in what is now Utah is like nothing that lives on planet Earth today. The discovery of new fossils reveals that a species first found in 1969 is not a member of ...

Some new developments have been noted in a fossil older than a dinosaur. For the study, researchers evaluated a fossil discovered in Brazil, which was explained in detail within the journal Review of ...

The study of fossil plants through the lens of chemical composition and phytochemistry has advanced our understanding of not only the preserved biomacromolecules but also the palaeobiological ...

The fossil record of plant–insect interactions offers an exceptional window into the deep-time co-evolutionary dynamics between terrestrial flora and their insect herbivores. Over hundreds of millions ...