Fossil Cycad National Monument was removed from the Park Service in 1957, but the story doesn’t end there. More than 20 years ago, in the dusty basement of a park Service library in West Virginia, ...
"The fossil on which we report is unique and a strange ... plants we might vaguely recognize as conifers, cycads, and Ginkgo ...
At the start of the period, dinosaurs ruled the loosening remnants of the supercontinent Pangaea as rodents scurried at their feet through forests of ferns, cycads, and conifers. At the end of the ...