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 ...

Around 90 per cent of land-dwelling plants are ones that flower and bear fruit, called angiosperms. These flowering plants are essential in maintaining Earth’s ecosystems, such as by storing ...

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

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 ...