during the Cretaceous period. That's relatively recent in geologic time: If all Earth's history were compressed into an hour, flowering plants would exist for only the last 90 seconds. But once ...

While the origin of flowering plants may go back as far as the Triassic Period, we don't see much evidence of them in the fossil record at the start of the Cretaceous. However, by the end of the ...

Flowering plants were spreading across the landscape ... of more than half the planet's species at the end of the Cretaceous remains a matter of scientific debate. But the shifted continents ...

One of the astonishing facts of palaeobotany has been the sudden appearance of Flowering Plants in late Cretaceous times. Dicotyledonous stems are now known, however, from lower Cretaceous rocks ...

Not only does this deciduous shrub have striking pink-red blooms, but the flowers have ... suggest that many plants found in ...

The Early Cretaceous period was a significant time for the evolution of Gnetales, a group of seed plants that includes modern genera such as Ephedra, Gnetum, and Welwitschia. Recent research has ...

As an ancient angiosperm that’s believed to have emerged in the Cretaceous period some 95 million years ago, this exquisite ...

Other groups of organisms also diversified. The first snakes evolved during this time, and by the end of the Cretaceous, flowering plants were a much more common part of Earth's plant life. Various ...

Despite these suppositions, “nobody ever bothered to figure out, from the biological side, what the spike was all about,” says University of Florida plant evolutionary biologist Emily Sessa. The ...

But researchers have long proposed that today’s diversity of herbivorous insect feeding styles developed when flowering plants, or angiosperms, evolved during the early Cretaceous period between ...