A study examining time-calibrated phylogenies and fossil records finds that the decline of conifers that was initiated in the Cretaceous Period is best explained by the rise of flowering plants and ...

If you were to travel back in time 100 million years to look for your Christmas tree, you would find firs nearly identical to the ones sold today. New research shows that the genome of conifers — a ...

Researchers at the University of Bristol have identified the huge impact of flowering plants on the evolution of life on Earth. Flowering plants today include most of the plants humans eat or drink, ...

Christmas trees have an apparent plumbing problem. The fir and pine trees millions of people deck out for the holidays each year — known as conifers — may need all that decoration to make up for their ...

Paleontologists may be on the verge of solving one of the great mysteries in the history of life on our planet – the origin of angiosperms, the flowering plants. The importance of angiosperms cannot ...

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