fill an approximately 25-million-year gap in knowledge by reconciling the molecular clock—or pace of evolution—with the fossil spore record—the physical evidence of early plant life gathered by ...

One of the most important milestones in the evolution of life began some 400 million years ... the world was changing dramatically: complex plant ecosystems formed on land, the first woody plants ...

New research shows that a fossilized plant from the Green River Formation is even stranger than scientists originally thought ...

However, the evolution of life-history strategies in early land plants remains poorly understood. As a predominant and typical component of Early Devonian floras, Zosterophyllopsida has a long ...

Through genome analysis, the scientists uncovered surprising insights into yerba mate’s evolutionary history – particularly ...

From 4.6 billion years ago when the Earth was red hot, the timeline illustrates the evolution of the first life forms through to plants photosynthesising, bacterial evolution, marine life ...