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 ...

You might know the Cretaceous Period for big animals such as Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops, or for being the end of the age of dinosaurs. But what was the world like in the millions of years ...

A strange layer in the fossil record contains evidence that fern populations exploded following the mass extinction that ended the Cretaceous period. Scientists want ... in the fossil record than ...

During the Cretaceous period, the seed size of plants was small, and fruits were rare. Fruits and seeds, however, would eventually change after the widespread disappearance of dinosaurs due to the ...

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

The Late Cretaceous period was 100.5-66 million years ago during ... They would live in the underbrush, working to avoid dinosaurs and eat plants as well as any scraps of meat they could find.

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 ...