Age-controlled south polar floral trends show a staggered Early Triassic gymnosperm recovery following the end-Permian event., Geological Society of America Bulletin (2025). DOI: 10.1130/B38017.1 ...

In this place, seed-producing gymnosperm forests continued to grow, complemented by spore-producing ferns. "At least in this place, we don't see mass extinction of plants," study co-author Wan Yang, a ...

The End-Permian mass extinction killed an estimated 80% of life on Earth, but new research suggests that plants might have done okay.

Some scientists have now branded the “Great Dying” as a “crisis on land, not an extinction” after new fossil discoveries led scientists to think that the volcanic eruption had less effect on land than ...

Researchers found evidence of gymnosperm forests and ferns in rock layers from this period, suggesting that some ecosystems remained intact. This discovery challenges ass... A 2,200-year-old ...

when fossil assemblages were still dominated by gymnosperm plants, such as conifers, cycads, and several extinct groups. The authors note that Middle Jurassic and extant insects differed taxonomically ...

Each gene's corresponding taxa are distinguished based on the prefix of its label name: two algal species (OSTLU and gene-CHILRE), three bryophyte species (MARPO, Foant, and gene-PHYPA), two fern ...

The University of Waterloo acknowledges that much of our work takes place on the traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabeg, and Haudenosaunee peoples. Our main campus is situated on the ...

Fossils in China suggest some plants survived the End-Permian extinction, indicating land ecosystems fared differently from ...

Scientists have uncovered how plants responded to catastrophic climate changes 250 million years ago. Their findings reveal the long, drawn-out process of ecosystem recovery following one of the ...

Flowers can produce showy displays that appeal to pollinating insects or animals, but some "cheat" by enticing pollinators but not rewarding them with nectar. Research in New Phytologist indicates ...