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 ...

Durham, NC – Flowering plants may be considerably older than previously thought, says a new analysis of the plant family tree. Previous studies suggest that flowering plants, or angiosperms, first ...

• Background Understanding the mode and mechanisms of the evolution of the angiosperm flower is a long-standing and central problem of evolutionary biology and botany. It has essentially remained ...

We may recognize our world by its flowering plants and trees, but evolutionarily speaking angiosperms are the new kids on the block, coming after epochs when giant fungus ruled the Earth and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In their recent paper published in Nature (2018, 554, 234-238), Lu et al. use phylogenetic approaches to determine the proportion of the ...

The centerpiece of the Swedish Museum of Natural History, in Stockholm, is probably the Fossils and Evolution hall, in which an enormous Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton seems to yawn over crowds of ...

PROF. T. M. HARRIS, in his recent presidential address to Section K (Botany) of the British Association 1, has directed attention to the successive failure of attempts to find fossils which appear to ...

High species diversity within a geographic area may be attributed to either recent rapid speciation in a 'cradle' or the gradual accumulation and preservation of species over time in a 'museum'. China ...

Ruolin Wu does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Suggested angiosperm ancestors -- Angiosperms : characters and criteria -- Background for the plant fossils -- Flowers from the Early Cretaceous -- Flower-related fossils from the Jurassic -- Trace of ...

Fossil of Gansufructus saligna gen. et sp. nov. showing branches, leaves as well as terminal fruits in different stages of maturity. Scale bars: 1.0 cm. In his vast correspondence with other ...