Today, just a few species of the palm-like plants survive in tropical and subtropical habitats. Like their lumbering grazers, most cycads have gone extinct. Their disappearance from their prior ...

Cycads and Bennettitales were at their most diverse during the Mesozoic Era. This fossil trunk of a Bennettitales shrub is more than 50 centimetres in length and is from the Early Cretaceous. It's 144 ...

Though it looked like a palm tree, Wood’s Cycad was actually part of an ancient ... and the reasons for its extinction remain unclear. While some specimens still exist in botanical gardens ...

The white cycad aulacaspis scale infests cycad leaves to cause early leaf death. A new study has shown that the infestations also increase the speed of leaf litter decomposition. Credit must be ...

A recent study from the Plant Physiology Laboratory at the University of Guam has determined that cycad seeds offer a unique approach for boosting seedling performance, and the results have been ...

and cycads. Much of this rich life—including all dinosaurs, pterosaurs, pliosaurs, and ammonites—perished in the extinction event at the end of the period 65 million years ago. In fact ...

Caption Thomas Marler (left) and Gil Cruz (center) measure cycad plant size traits in the foothills of Mount Pinatubo, Philippines, along with Ulysses Ferreras (right) from the Philippine Native ...

The research focuses on assessing the abundance and types of carbohydrates stored in the stems, contributing to knowledge on ...