An ancient forest in Tasmania was the location of an extensive dig conducted by a recent PhD graduate, who unlocked new plant species and more insights on Earth's climate and continental shifts.

A new description of two well-preserved ancient fossil plant specimens in Washington state is prompting paleobotanists to rethink how plants might have been dispersed during the Late Cretaceous ...

Scientists have discovered a unique fossil that does not match any known species of flowering plants, an advance that sheds more light on the planet’s ancient diversity. Researchers first ...

Fossils are always monumental discoveries, and a discovery in Canada is no different. Scientists in Canada have uncovered an ...

Palms at the poles: Fossil plants reveal lush southern hemisphere forests in ancient hothouse climate. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2022 / 05 ...

This ancient plant might be even more ancient than paleobotanists once believed. By Kenneth Chang Before the first mammals, before dinosaurs roamed the Earth, a plant grew in Gondwana, a huge ...

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Ancient earthquake burial. The researchers excavated the first fossil tree about seven years ago, but it took another few years before four more specimens of the same plant were found in close ...

Meet the Scientist Studying ‘Fossil Snapshots’ of Ancient Insect Life. Paleobiologist Scott Lakeram analyzes 300-million-year-old coal ball fossils to reveal prehistoric plant-insect ...

While fossils of land plants are abundant, ancient seaweed fossils are rare. To survive out of water, plants developed sturdy vascular systems and strong cell walls.