In the year 1870, workers repairing a road damaged by floods in Gilboa, New York, made a discovery that would forever change our understanding of early life on our planet. As they lifted the soil, ...

Moscow and the University of Idaho dominate this week’s Events Roundup, with a slew of arts activities in the coming days.

The site is already on UNESCO’s tentative list, and officials believe the excavation will provide crucial scientific evidence ...

Paleobotany is the branch of plant sciences that investigates fossil plants and plant-related remains to reconstruct past floras, ecosystems, and environmental conditions through geological time. It ...

New research reveals that shifts in plant life played a key role in speeding up major climate changes during the late Miocene, a period spanning 11.6 to 5.3 million years ago.

The University of Colorado Boulder has acquired a rare Wollemi pine tree, a tree species that lived alongside dinosaurs and was thought to be extinct until it was rediscovered in Australia in 1994. CU ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The University of Colorado Boulder has acquired a rare Wollemi pine tree, a tree species that lived alongside dinosaurs and was thought to be extinct until ...

The amber fossils preserve an impressive array of ancient bugs and plants that scientists are using to piece together a previously unknown Cretaceous ecosystem. Reading time 3 minutes For the first ...

Wooden artifacts unearthed at the Gantangqing site in Yunnan province. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY A multidisciplinary research team has announced the discovery of 300,000-year-old well-preserved wooden ...

A multidisciplinary research team has announced the discovery of 300,000-year-old well-preserved wooden artifacts at the Gantangqing site in Southwest China's Yunnan province, presenting the earliest ...

THEY say the trouble with palseobotany is the number and plasticity of its theories; but these are only symptoms. The real trouble is its facts. To be sure, there are lots which are clearly enough ...

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.