Recent research has focused on uncovering the origins and diversity of early angiosperms, shedding light on their evolutionary pathways and ecological roles during the Mesozoic era. One of the key ...

Today flowering plant species outnumber by twenty to one those of ferns and cone-bearing trees, or conifers, which had thrived for 200 million years before the first bloom appeared. As a food ...

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 ...