A unique cache of plant fossils from volcanic deposits in New Mexico contradicts the common narrative that flowering plants ...

Scientists thought angiosperms didn’t use animals to spread seeds until after the Age of Dinosaurs. Fossilized fruits from ...

The discovery of a "botanical Pompeii" has rewritten a long-held theory that flowering plants only flourished after the ...

Large fruits and seeds buried under volcanic ash nearly 75 million years ago upend the idea that flowering plants only came ...

Flowering plants survived Earth's worst disasters, including the asteroid strike that ended the dinosaurs, while many others vanished. A sweeping genomic analysis suggests ancient DNA doubling may ...

Showy milkweed blooms along the trail through Waterton Canyon in Littleton, Colorado. (Amanda Pampuro/Courthouse News) (CN) — Thanks to a genetic quirk, many flowering plants survived the asteroid ...

An assembly framework and video to learn about about dinosaurs, paleontology, and the ancient natural history of Earth.

When the big asteroid hit Mexico 66 million years ago, it set off wildfires, tsunamis and massive clouds of dust that darkened the skies, killed much of Earth’s plant life and triggered a chain of ...

Millions of years ago, dinosaurs ruled the Earth in a very different environment than we see today, with some creatures demonstrating indomitable power, while others thrived in different ways. As ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient genome duplications may have helped flowering plants survive asteroid strikes, warming and cooling across Earth’s history.