Indeed, scientists have long wondered why land plants did not emerge on Earth until 450 million years ago, even though their progenitors, cyanobacteria, had been in existence for 2.7 billion years.

a doctoral student in Earth and planetary sciences at Yale and first and corresponding author of the new study. Indeed, scientists have long wondered why land plants did not emerge on Earth until 450 ...

Indeed, scientists have long wondered why land plants did not emerge on Earth until 450 million years ago, even though their progenitors, cyanobacteria, had been in existence for 2.7 billion years.

Earth Skills — a continuing series of monthly classes being offered by the Newport Beach nonprofit Environmental Nature Center through June — aims to teach locals the art of surviving in ...

Around 430 million years ago, plants began their transition from ocean to land, a process that significantly transformed the Earth's ecological environment, according to experts. "Terrestrial plants ...

In a significant breakthrough, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered where an essential photoreceptor, cryptochrome-1 (CRY1), operates within plant seedling stems ...

From the stability of RNA on plant surfaces to its potential to shape microbial communities, the study offers a glimpse into the complexity of hidden genetic mechanisms. The research also highlights ...

Around 430 million years ago, plants began their transition from ocean to land, a process that significantly transformed the Earth's ecological environment, according to experts. "Terrestrial ...

Newly discovered fossils matched up with a mysterious “alien plant” species found in 1969 ... equipped researchers with state-of-the-art technology. They could study the fossil in closer ...

We would roam through flowering-plant-dominated forests whose diversity approached the plant diversity we might find in the modern forests of the southeastern United States. We would encounter a ...

Researchers at the John Innes Centre have discovered that the capacity of bacteria to spread disease in plants is more extensive than known before. Using Pseudomonas syringae, they found that the ...

Paleontologists discovered the fossil of an “alien plant” 50 years ago in Utah and have been unable to relate it to modern or extinct plants. Credits: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons.