THE wonderful state of preservation of many Pa1æozoic plants, which has enabled us to gain much valuable information in regard to phylogenetic problems, is in marked contrast to the general ...

For some gymnosperms called cycads, insects serve as their pollen shuttle service ... cycad pollen reveals that the relationship between these plants and insects may have begun long before the ...

Indeed, researchers are coming to realize that the term “living fossil” is a misnomer. One by one, the classic examples—horseshoe crabs, coelacanths, cycads, and more—have turned out to be very ...

He combines geochemistry with the fossil record to try to understand the Earth’s climate history. Knowing already that modern cycads are nitrogen-fixers, Kipp began analyzing some very old plant ...

The Fossil Forest in Dorset was a 145 million-year ... Ancient species of conifers, tree ferns, and cycads had sprouted on what was now the southern coast of England as the ocean retreated.

Crumbling landmasses and inland seas. Sea monsters, sharks, and blood-red plankton. Forests of ferns, cycads, and conifers. Warm, moist, tropical breezes. This was the Jurassic, which took place ...