The gymnosperms originated about 319 million years ago, in the late Carboniferous. It is a diverse cluster of plants, containing cycads, ginkgos and the shrub Mormon tea. By far the most abundant ...

A study of a bizarre prehistoric bird's fossilized remains has uncovered fascinating new details regarding its behavior.

The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Botanical Gazette Vol. 26, No. 3, Sep., 1898 The Origin of Gymnosperms and the Seed H... The Origin of Gymnosperms and the Seed Habit This is the ...

Longipteryx was feeding from gymnosperms, relatives of the ginkgos and conifers around today. Longipteryx also lived in a temperate climate, so it likely wasn’t feasting on fruits all year.

Ginkgos are a unique type of plant. They're gymnosperms like conifers, meaning they have seeds but don't produce flowers. The first species of Ginkgo evolved in the Permian, before the dinosaurs. One ...

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 biologists analysed data held by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on the genome size of hundreds of plants, including flowering plants, gymnosperms (a group of plants, which include conifers ...

They told her that the round contents in the fossilized bird stomach were flesh-covered seeds (true fruits found on flowering plants were just emerging during Longipteryx’s time), probably from ...

All cycads are dioecious, meaning that they have separate male and female plants. Cycads are gymnosperms and do not produce any flowers or fruits. Instead, they reproduce by producing seeds in seed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some roughly 120-million-year-old seeds are telling a new story about what the Earth’s first birds ate. Paleontologists found the seeds in the fossilized stomachs of an early bird species, despite a ...