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 ...

The journey to Earth's vibrant colours began over 600 million years ago with the evolution of vision. Fast-forward to today, ...

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 ...

But male flies, in turn, have sharpened their eyesight to call their bluff. A new study suggests that this is an ongoing evolution where both sexes ...

What do cells, genes, mutations, transposons, RNA silencing, and DNA recombination have in common? All were discovered first in plants. It sounds grandiose, but it’s true, and plant biologists delight ...

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 ...

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 ...

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