A prehistoric Equisetum horsetail plant that survived 400 million years produces oxygen isotopes and water with an extreme chemical signature ...

A plant that lived 47 million years ago in what is now Utah is like nothing that lives on planet Earth today. The discovery of new fossils reveals that a species first found in 1969 is not a member of ...

An “alien plant” fossil discovered 55 years ago just outside of an abandoned town in Utah has no relation to any currently existing or extinct species, scientists revealed in a study last month.

A recent Ph.D. graduate's excavation of an ancient forest near Strahan in western Tasmania exceeded expectations with the discovery of new plant species. Fossils were discovered during a 2020 ...

A remarkable fossil from Scotland, dating back 407 million years, reveals a previously unknown fungus, Rugososporomyces ...

In a dry riverbed in Brazil, in a dense forest near the Amazon, a team of paleontologists found a fossilized jawbone from an ...

Scientists have uncovered a 377-million-year-old tree fossil in southwest England that shows early trees once grew on ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. After spending millions of years tucked away in rocks, fossils can ...

A study of fossil sites in Australia has revealed "exquisitely preserved" plants that lived millions of years ago. The material in which the fossils described in the study occur is called silcrete.

Paleobiologists use fossil plants to reconstruct Earth’s past climate and inform climate change research today. Emily Leclerc Fossil plants reveal information about the temperature and precipitation ...

Newly identified plant fossils found in Argentina suggest that a group of spurges long thought to have Asian origins may have first appeared in Gondwanan South America. Anyone who has taken a long ...