Today, about 90% of plants are flowering plants, also known as angiosperms. While the origin of flowering plants may go back as far as the Triassic Period, we don't see much evidence of them in the ...

From them he deduces that hadrosaurs, or duck-billed dinosaurs, subsisted on large angiosperm leaves that had evolved in a warm climatic shift just before the Cretaceous period ended. Referring to ...

A notable discovery is the fossil flower bud, Florigerminis jurassica, from the Jurassic period in China. This fossil provides evidence that angiosperm ... from the Lower Cretaceous, which ...

3 min read Continents were on the move in the Cretaceous ... period, about 80 million years later, oceans filled yawning gaps between isolated continents shaped much as they are today. Flowering ...

Various insect groups also appeared, including bees, which helped increase the spread of flowering plants. And mammals now included tree climbers, ground dwellers and even predators of small dinosaurs ...

A strange layer in the fossil record contains evidence that fern populations exploded following the mass extinction that ended the Cretaceous period. Scientists want to know why ... “We see very few ...

Flowering plants adapted better ... Plant life proliferated during the Maastrichtian period. However, intensifying volcanic activity closer to the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary significantly ...