A strange layer in the fossil record contains evidence that fern populations exploded following the mass extinction that ended the Cretaceous period. Scientists want to know why. Amanda was an ...
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Chinese fossil site suggests land plants survived Earth’s worst mass extinctionA recently uncovered fossil location in China’s Turpan-Hami Basin suggests that some terrestrial ecosystems were only marginally affected by the most cataclysmic extinction event in Earth’s history, ...
From batch sales of unopened rocks on eBay to discreet phone calls to higher-dollar patrons, Illinois’ commercial fossil ...
Can plants uncover the survival secrets of Earth’s darkest days? A research team from (UCC), the University of Connecticut, ...
The ferns and their relatives first appear in the fossil record some 360 million years ago in the late Devonian period. They diversified into many of the modern fern families and species during the ...
This is a Japanese royal fern (Osmunda japonica), a close modern-day relative of the Early Jurassic fossil, found on Mount Takao near Hachioji, Japan. This image relates to a paper that appeared ...
Body fossil – The remains of part (or all) of an actual organism. In the kits, the trilobite (2), brachiopod (3), dinosaur bone (4), horse tooth (5), petrified wood (6), graptolite (7), fish (8), ...
A new study reveals that a region in China's Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium, or "life oasis," for terrestrial plants ...
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