IN the course of my work at the British Museum on Cretaceous plants, I have examined a number of more or less perfectly petrified “woods.” Such specimens have generally been classed together ...

He makes a plea for more intensive study of Angiosperm-like fossils from rocks of the Triassic, Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous periods, in the confident hope that some will be found to be the early ...

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 ...

So we squinted through her powerful magnifier and took a figurative walk through a Cretaceous world of tiny and diverse angiosperms. Enlarged hundreds or thousands of times, Friis's fossilized ...

In addition to great diversity in floral structure and modes of pollination, extant angiosperms also exhibit astonishing variety in fruit and seed morphology. This variety reflects a great range of ...

3 min read Continents were on the move in the Cretaceous, busy remodeling the shape and tone of life on Earth. At the start of the period, dinosaurs ruled the loosening remnants of the ...

Began to break up during the Jurassic, split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland. Cretaceous - appearance of angiosperms, establishment in mid-latitudes while Northern Laurasia and Southern Gondwana ...

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 ...

"In the fossil record they appear very suddenly in the Cretaceous, dated at about 100 million years ago, and there's nothing that looks like an angiosperm before them and then they suddenly appear ...

The first part of the book details the past continental relationships of Australia, its palaeoclimate, fauna and the evolution of its landforms since the rise to dominance of the angiosperms at the ...