Gymnosperm means “naked seed” and comes from the same Greek root as gymnastics, which means to exercise naked. This group of plants is so named because the seeds are not enclosed inside an ovary, ...

which differs across the lineages of angiosperm and gymnosperm plants,” Raymond Wightman, a co-author of the study from the University of Cambridge, said in a press statement. “Angiosperm cell ...

There are vegetables and fruits that begin with X! Now, X isn't exactly the life of the (alphabet) party, so don’t expect ...

The Origin of Gymnosperms and the Seed Habit This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. 1. A great Cordaites plexus, more extensive than the one usually included under that name, ...

The Jurassic was a world dominated by gymnosperm plants, such as conifers, which produced sugary nectar to capture pollen from the air. The primitive insects may have fed on this nectar ...

including flowering plants, gymnosperms (a group of plants, which include conifers and Ginkgo) and ferns. They then compared genome size with anatomical features such as the abundance of pores on ...

As for the plant kingdom, the Jurassic was the age of the gymnosperms – a group of seed-producing plants that includes conifers, cycads and ginkgos. A lot of the gymnosperm diversity has died out and ...

The prehistoric trees that Longipteryx appears to have fed from were gymnosperms, relatives of today's conifers and ginkgos. Flowering plants were only just starting to flourish when the bird ...

In flowering plants today, something like 70% are insect pollinated,' explains Paul. 'Insect pollination happens earlier on in the Jurassic with gymnosperms [a group of seed-producing plants], but it ...

that we can compare to changes in the animals and plants at the time to gain a greater understanding of how life on the planet responds to changing climate. Ginkgos are a unique type of plant. They're ...