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 ...

But it also means scientists have less of an understanding of the plants and land animals that lived in Britain at the end of the Cretaceous Period. We have a much better idea of what lived on land ...

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 ...

Beyond simply its aesthetic and sensory appeal, sweetshrub has a rich history, and fossil records suggest that many plants ...

The Late Cretaceous period was 100. ... size of a mouse on the large end. They would live in the underbrush, working to avoid ...

Coelophysis lived towards the end of the Triassic Period, as did these other Late Triassic ... The first snakes evolved during this time, and by the end of the Cretaceous, flowering plants were a much ...

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 ...