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 ...

An “alien plant” fossil discovered 55 years ago just outside of an abandoned town in Utah has no relation to any currently existing or extinct species, scientists revealed in a study last month.

In a dry riverbed in Brazil, in a dense forest near the Amazon, a team of paleontologists found a fossilized jawbone from an ...

New research shows that early land plants started influencing Earth’s climate hundreds of millions of years earlier than ...

A recent Ph.D. graduate's excavation of an ancient forest near Strahan in western Tasmania exceeded expectations with the discovery of new plant species. Fossils were discovered during a 2020 ...

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 fossilized plant discovered in Utah’s Green River Formation has just shaken up botanical science. Published in the journal Annals of Botany, the species — known as Othniophyton elongatum, meaning ...

A study of fossil sites in Australia has revealed "exquisitely preserved" plants that lived millions of years ago. The material in which the fossils described in the study occur is called silcrete.

Paleobiologists use fossil plants to reconstruct Earth’s past climate and inform climate change research today. Emily Leclerc Fossil plants reveal information about the temperature and precipitation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's reconstruction of Tyrannoroter heberti, a plant-eating creature that lived 315 million years ago during the ...

HAGERMAN, Idaho — Federal wildlife officials will showcase southern Idaho's native plants and their ancient connections during a public event June 27 at Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument. The ...

The Early Cretaceous period witnessed a remarkable diversity of gnetalean plants, with fossil discoveries shedding new light on the morphology, ecology and evolutionary history of this enigmatic group ...