Before flowering plants emerged, the gymnosperms, which have cone-like structures instead of flowers, dominated the plant ...

Such specimens have generally been classed together as “Gymnosperms,” so that they have received little attention from palæobotanists. As I am undertaking an exhaustive study of the ...

Gymnosperm means “naked seed” and comes from the same Greek root as gymnastics, which means to exercise naked. This group of plants is so named because the seeds are not enclosed inside an ovary, ...

Spruces do not retain their needles for long, the needles are quite sharp, and the needles are not aromatic like those of ...

Angiosperms produce flowers and fruits ... including flowering plants, gymnosperms (a group of plants, which include conifers and Ginkgo) and ferns. They then compared genome size with anatomical ...

Flowers attract these pollinators, which then transport pollen onward. This has proved to be an enormously successful strategy. There are more than 250,000 species of angiosperms, versus around 1,000 ...

Recent workers have confirmed this for Lycopodium 1, and a number of Gymnosperms 2,3,4,5. The above case shows that even in the Angiosperms, and even at the extreme apex in these, periclinal ...

We made some key new discoveries in this survey—an entirely novel form of wood ultrastructure never observed before and a family of gymnosperms with angiosperm-like hardwood instead of the ...

"Why isn't there a gradual evolution of the angiosperms? Why can't we see intermediate forms between the gymnosperms - things like conifers - and the flowering plants? And why, when they appear ...

Rainforests did not yet exist when the Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops roamed the Earth. None of the iconic “terrible lizards” that we so often associate with steaming, dense jungles lived in any such ...