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 ...

Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources. But how did the production of stone tools -- called 'knapping' -- start?

Plants shape Earth’s atmosphere by moving carbon and water vapour. New research sheds light on how they learned to do it – ...

They help ecosystems thrive, offer us knowledge about plant evolution, and make great tree ... plants as we know them first developed in these early plant types. So, bryophytes and seedless ...

Researchers emphasize that this fossil confirms that cerapodan dinosaurs underwent diversification well before the Cretaceous ...

Scientists have discovered evidence that Earth's oceans were once green, hinting that this could be a marker of early life, ...