The origin of fruit is somewhat murky; the earliest known angiosperms, or flowering plants, are dated to the Early Cretaceous (around 135 million years ago) based on fossil evidence, but some ...

Thrips are tiny insects—their sizes range between 0.5mm and 15mm in length and many are shorter than 5mm. But the damage they ...

Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery.

While modern trees like maples and ashes have switched to wind pollination — releasing clouds of pollen to be scattered at ...

Early plants began producing colourful fruits and flowers ... The rise of flowering plants (angiosperms) in the Cretaceous period, over 100 million years ago, brought an explosion of colour ...

Early plants began producing colourful fruits and flowers ... The rise of flowering plants (angiosperms) in the Cretaceous period, over 100 million years ago, brought an explosion of colour ...

In a thrilling revelation for paleontologists and history buffs alike, a new species of early mammal has been discovered in ...

Previous research revealed that a purported cocoa plant was part of a marine reptile jaw, while an assumed Cretaceous fruit was just a banana-shaped rock, according to the study.

Dicotyledonous stems are now known, however, from lower Cretaceous rocks, and recently Mr. Hamshaw Thomas has brought to light some remarkable fossil fruits (the Caytoniales), resembling those of ...

The brain of a fruit fly is smaller than a pinhead ... Experts say that the discovery could be key to unlocking valuable information about Australia's Cretaceous period. In January 2022, the Hunga ...