About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and ...

A team of scientists from University College Cork (UCC), the University of Connecticut, and the Natural History Museum of Vienna have uncovered how plants responded to catastrophic climate changes 250 ...

A region in China’s Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium - or “life oasis”- for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian ...

Can plants uncover the survival secrets of Earth’s darkest days? A research team from (UCC), the University of Connecticut, ...

Can plants reveal the secrets of survival during Earth's darkest days? At an outcrop north of Sydney, Australia, the research ...

Nitrogen fixing bacteria may have helped some cycads survive to the present day DURHAM, N.C. -- Once a favored food of grazing dinosaurs, an ancient lineage of plants called cycads helped sustain ...

The temptation naturally was great to suggest a real bond of affinity between the Flowering Plants and these Cycadean-like Mesozoic plants, the Bennettitales (Cycadeoideas). A theory was worked ...

Some fossil discoveries even suggest that certain Mesozoic plants existed before the extinction event, pointing to uninterrupted evolution. The South Taodonggou section in Xinjiang offers a unique ...

Scientists divide the Mesozoic Era into three periods ... This meant that differences between animals or plants found in different areas were minor. The Triassic climate was relatively hot and dry, ...