Researchers have found nearly every plant part they need to trace the prehistoric history of a 47 million-year-old "alien ...

But the more they looked at their new fossils, the more they realized that the Eocene plant had nothing in common with the genus Oreopanax, or the Araliaceae family to which it belongs.

But the more they looked at their new fossils, the more they realized that the Eocene plant had nothing in common with the genus Oreopanax, or the Araliaceae family to which it belongs. The leaves, ...

A plant that lived 47 million years ago in what is now Utah is like nothing that lives on planet Earth today. The discovery of new fossils reveals that a species first found in 1969 is not a ...

An “alien plant” fossil discovered 55 years ago just outside ... For decades, they believed that the species could be related to ginseng, a common medicinal root. Fossilized leaves, referred ...

The plant was entirely unique, with features no modern plant shares, making it an outsider in the fossil record Juliana Cruz Lima , Foreign News Reporter Published : 13:59, 24 Dec 2024 ...

Near an ancient ghost town in Utah, a unique fossil plant is puzzling researchers. Among all known living or extinct plants, it defies any classification. In 1969, paleontologists discovered fossil ...

Steven Manchester, curator of paleobotany at the Florida Museum of Natural History and Utah fossil expert, came across an unidentified plant fossil while visiting the University of California ...

The earliest known fossil of a terrestrial plant that shows almost its entire structure has gone on display for the first time in the world at an exhibition in Tokyo. Although it was discovered ...

At the time, researchers believed that the plant belonged to the ginseng family, known scientifically as Araliaceae. But a recent assessment of a 47-million-year-old fossil collected from the same ...