They cling on in a world conquered by a quarter of a million angiosperm species – the flowering plants. What went wrong? Until recently, the tale has been that gymnosperms didn’t stand a ...

It might sound silly, but Darwin really couldn’t explain how flowering plants — known as angiosperms — had risen to dominance so quickly over the more primitive angiosperms — a group that ...

Trees are typically organized into two categories: hardwoods (angiosperms) and softwoods (gymnosperms). A new study suggests that there is a third type of wood—known as “midwood”—that ...

However, its age of 162 million years puts it smack in the Jurassic period, and in the middle of a passionate debate over the origin of angiosperms, the world's most successful and diverse group ...

Fossils of angiosperms first appear in the fossil record about 140 million years ago. Based on the material in which these fossils are deposited, early angiosperms must have been weedy ...

The angiosperms are the most recently derived plant group, originating some 160 million years ago and becoming widespread around 120 million years ago. Angiosperm means “enclosed seed,” referring to ...