Scientists say the "unique" fossil find shows they were in fact blooming 10 million years before dinosaurs were wiped out.

Fossils from the Jose Creek Formation in New Mexico reveal that angiosperms (flowering plants) had built dense, fruit-bearing ...

A unique cache of plant fossils from volcanic deposits in New Mexico contradicts the common narrative that flowering plants were minor players in Earth's forests until dinosaurs disappeared 66 million ...

Angiosperms exhibit a wide range of variability in floral attributes such as shape, size or color. Color is one of the most conspicuous floral characters, and since Darwin’s time, it has been ...

Extra copies of genetic instructions may have helped flowering plants survive mass extinctions, including the catastrophe that saw off the dinosaurs. New findings suggest that angiosperms – flowering ...

Discover how scientists are identifying the world’s rarest and most evolutionarily unique flowering plants, and why many face extinction within decades. From vanilla orchids to smelly titans, Kew and ...

New research finds more than a fifth of flowering plant evolutionary history could vanish without adequate protection measures in place From the "world’s smelliest plant" to the tiniest of waterlilies ...

New research finds more than a fifth of flowering plant evolutionary history could vanish without adequate protection measures in place From the ‘world’s smelliest plant’ to the tiniest of waterlilies ...

For decades, scientists have relied on tree rings to estimate how long trees can live. But new research suggests that this widely used method may have been underestimating the lifespan of many ...

Tulip Tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) towering over its neighbors in the Cambridge University Botanic Garden. This Tulip Tree is listed as a Champion Tree by The Tree Register of The British Isles.

Flowers may look delicate – but flowering plants, what scientists call angiosperms, are one of the most successful evolutionary organisms on the planet. Including more than 350,000 known species, they ...

If you looked up 66 million years ago you might have seen, for a split second, a bright light as a mountain-sized asteroid burned through the atmosphere and smashed into Earth. It was springtime and ...