Flowering plants may have evolved 250 million years ago, more than 100 million years earlier than the oldest fossilised flowers so far found. Today, flowering plants – known as angiosperms ...

Early angiosperms represent a pivotal chapter in plant evolution, marked by rapid diversification and profound ecological impact during the Early Cretaceous. These flowering plants, distinguished ...

Fossils of angiosperms first appear in the fossil record about 140 million years ago. Based on the material in which these fossils are deposited, early angiosperms must have been weedy, fast ...

Paleobotanists have found fossils of the world's earliest herbaceous angiosperm plant from the mid-Jurassic period (more than 164 million years ago) in northern China's Inner Mongolia.

The discovery of exceptionally well-preserved, tiny fossil seeds dating back to the Early Cretaceous corroborates that flowering plants were small opportunistic colonizers at that time, according ...

A new global study has revealed the first complete evolutionary tree of the Earth's flowering plant families, showing how the group rose to world domination.

Preliminary identification by experts suggests this fossil represents a new species of Early Cretaceous angiosperm with values for studying the evolution of early flowering plants.