The absence of large herbivores after the extinction of the dinosaurs changed the evolution of plants. The 25 million ... has demonstrated this using palm trees as a model system.

We looked at evolutionary trees based on appearance or on molecules for 48 groups of animals and plants, including bats ... of living things that influenced art and design in the 19th and 20th ...

The findings provided the first examples in plants of a phenomenon known as “replicated radiation,” in which similar forms evolve repeatedly within different regions, suggesting that evolution is not ...

The humble mite, a tiny invertebrate that typically lives in small chambers on the underside of leaves, plays a mighty role ...

Although not yet a "true" tree, this new member of the terrestrial plant kingdom became the perfect evolutionary link (and the largest plant species) with developing tree parts and considered the ...

Previous evolutionary trees of plants built by scientists often used the genome of the chloroplast, the organelle that allows plants to perform photosynthesis. These genomes could be sequenced ...

Getting to the root of plant evolution Date: August 22, 2018 Source: University of Oxford Summary: Despite plants and vegetation being key to the Earth's ecosystem, little is known about the ...

compared the genomes of more than 200 living plants and used them to construct an evolutionary tree of their deep ancestry. In mapping the tree, they pinpointed when various genes emerged ...

Mistletoes evolved the ability to grow not on the roots of trees, but instead on their ... luck and a little lust—the evolutionary story of these plants with their sticky fruits and parasitic ...