Learn how the extinction of dinosaurs around 66 million years ago caused seeds to grow larger, filling in an important piece ...

What was their great innovation? Botanists call flowering plants angiosperms, from the Greek words for "vessel" and "seed." Unlike conifers, which produce seeds in open cones, angiosperms enclose ...

However, the mechanisms by which flowers maintain water balance are poorly understood across angiosperm branches. In a study ...

It may have helped them weather the dramatic shift in climate or it may have allowed them to compete better with the faster-growing angiosperm plants that flourished after the extinction, “or it could ...

It was heralded as the earliest known angiosperm, or flowering plant, and it is now thought to be roughly 125 million years old. In the following video clips, fossil images, and drawings ...

New research shows that a fossilized plant from the Green River Formation is even stranger than scientists originally thought ...