Paleontologists may be on the verge of solving one of the great mysteries in the history of life on our planet – the origin of angiosperms, the flowering plants. The importance of angiosperms cannot ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Flowering plants - from corn, wheat, rice and potatoes to maple, oak, apple and cherry trees as well as roses, tulips, daisies and dandelions and even the corpse flower and ...

Sequencing of the water lily’s genome has shed light on the early evolution of angiosperms, flowering plants. Utilizing high-throughput next-generation sequencing technology, an international team of ...

One of the great mysteries of evolutionary biology is how, 150 or more million years ago, modern-day angiosperms (flowering plants) diverged from their closest relatives, the gymnosperms (seed-bearing ...

A fossil of Montsechia, which came onto the scene about 130 million years ago, making it the oldest known flowering plant. A fossil of Montsechia, which came onto the scene about 130 million years ago ...

Compact genomes and tiny cells gave flowering plants an edge over competing flora. This discovery hints at a broader evolutionary principle. When people consider evolutionary events related to the ...

The appearance of flowering plants on Earth, and their rapid dissemination during the Cretaceous can be attributed to their capacity to transform the world to their own needs, according to a new ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. In his vast correspondence with other contemporary naturalists, ...

Az Klymiuk (University of Manitoba) receives/has received funding from the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC-CRSNG), the TAWANI Foundation (through the Field Museum of ...