Millions of years before the first trees grew their canopies and the earliest insects buzzed, a strange organism sprouted ...

TO every science, works which bring together the data of the subject are essential, and to none more so than to palæobotany, which is based on the correlation of fragmentary remains from all ...

Numerical ages estimate the date of a geological event and can sometimes reveal quite precisely when a fossil species existed in time. Third, magnetism in rocks can be used to estimate the age of ...

But the impacts of this event for life on land have been elusive. By examining fossil plants and rocks from eastern Australia's Sydney Basin, researchers have pieced together a multi-million-year ...

A team of scientists has uncovered new clues by studying 365-million-year-old seed plant fossils from China. The discovery, led by researchers from Peking University and the Chinese Academy of ...

While preparing to build a power substation next to a Utah residential subdivision, a prehistoric field of dinosaur and other ...

“I also really love Centralia, Pennsylvania,” he adds, “the fossil plants are a little more iridescent than the ones nearby.

Mining excavations during the 1980s and earlier uncovered and exposed fine-grained sedimentary rocks containing well preserved fossil plants and insects. These have already been studied by many ...

scambus was a three-toed, two-legged dinosaur that belonged to the ornithischian family, which includes other plant ... rock, which spans many miles and dates to the Early Jurassic period, fossil ...