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Newly discovered fossils in Argentina provide evidence that changes in climate and geography may have compelled a well-known species of spurge plants to migrate from southern South America to southeast Asia and beyond. Those who have embarked on extended journeys by road or bicycle have likely benef...

Scientists identified a new plant genus, Franscinella, from a 296-million-year-old fossil in Brazil. The find sheds light on ancient plant evolution. Brazilian paleobotanists have resolved a long-standing mystery through the redefinition of a fossil plant first described decades ago in southern Braz...

An international team of researchers has discovered a new type of fossilization. Discovery of ‘ghost’ fossils reveals plankton resilience to past global warming events. An international team of scientists from University College London (UCL), the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Natural History Mu...

According to a new study, fossils of a tiny sea creature with a delicately preserved nervous system solve a century-old debate over how the brain evolved in arthropods, the most species-rich group in the animal kingdom. Fossils of a tiny sea creature that died more than half a billion years ago may ...

An ancient 80-million-year-old fossil plant rewrites the history of lamiids, revealing that these flowering plants, including staple crops, evolved earlier than previously believed and suggesting complex rainforests may have existed 80 million years ago. The discovery of an 80-million-year-old fossi...

Takakia Has Adapted to Extreme Environments for Millions of Years but Now Faces Climate-Driven Extinction. The rare moss species Takakia has evolved over the course of millions of years to thrive in high-altitude environments. A collaborative research effort headed by Prof. Dr. Ralf Reski from the U...

Researchers studying the Sweet Annie plant’s medicinal compounds, have uncovered mechanisms for potential cancer and COVID-19 treatments. Vibrant green leaves sprout from tall fragrant plants sitting neatly in two rows of terracotta pots in Valerie Sponsel’s University of Texas at San Antonio ...

Cycads, ancient plants once prevalent during the Mesozoic Era, have mostly gone extinct, with a few species surviving in tropical and subtropical areas. Researchers have discovered that these surviving cycads relied on symbiotic bacteria for nitrogen fixation, a trait not found in their extinct coun...

Researchers nicknamed the fossil “Turtwig” after a Pokemon that’s half-turtle, half-plant. From the 1950s to the 1970s, a Colombian priest named Padre Gustavo Huertas collected rocks and fossils near a town called Villa de Levya. Two of the specimens he found were small, round rocks patterned with l...

Microfossils dating back half a billion years have been discovered by a scientist from the University of Leicester. A scientist from the University of Leicester has discovered a new type of fossil that reveals life in the oceans half a billion years ago. The tiny organisms, detailed in a new study i...

Mysterious fossils found in India in the 1970s have been identified as part of the Frankincense family, hinting at a southern hemisphere origin and reshaping our understanding of plant evolution. Early in the 1970s, a paleontologist working on the outskirts of an Indian village found small, bead-lik...

A recent study suggests that the health impact of air pollution caused by fossil fuels is significantly greater than previously thought. Eliminating fossil fuel usage could lead to major improvements in public health. Air pollution remains a significant risk to public health, with varying estimates ...

In the fossil record, it’s common to find trees preserved merely as trunks, lacking any foliage that reveals their canopy structure or overall shape. However, a recent study published in the journal Current Biology, presents an extraordinary discovery of fossilized trees from New Brunswick, Ca...

The oldest fossilized forest ever discovered on Earth, dating back 390 million years, has been located within the towering sandstone cliffs of the Devon and Somerset coast in South West England. The fossils, discovered and identified by researchers from the Universities of Cambridge and Cardiff, are...

Grape fossils in South America show evolution and resilience post-dinosaurs, aiding understanding of current biodiversity shifts. Researchers have discovered fossil grape seeds that range from 60 to 19 million years old in Colombia, Panama, and Peru. One of these species represents the earliest know...

Ancient fossil beans the size of modern limes may provide new insight into the evolution of today’s diverse Southeast Asian and Australian rainforests, according to Penn State researchers who identified the plants. The researchers determined that the fossils, which are among the largest seeds in the...

The discovery indicates a greater diversity in the fossil record of flowering plants than was previously acknowledged. In 1969, fossilized leaves of Othniophyton elongatum—a name meaning “alien plant”—were discovered in eastern Utah. Initially, scientists speculated that this extinct species might h...

Can plants uncover the survival secrets of Earth’s darkest days? A research team from University College Cork (UCC), the University of Connecticut, and the Natural History Museum of Vienna has uncovered how plants responded to catastrophic climate change 250 million years ago. Their study, published...

Saharan mustard threatens desert plant diversity and hampers recovery from climate fluctuations. Once believed to be naturally resistant to invasion, deserts in the region are now losing native plants to aggressive species like Saharan mustard. New research reveals that the spread of this weed is di...

Alternanthera littoralis, commonly called Joseph’s Coat, is native to Brazil’s coastal regions and has a long history of use in treating microbial infections and parasitic diseases. Scientists in Brazil from the Federal University of Grande Dourados (UFGD), the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP)...

A new study suggests that some of the world’s oxygen-deprived oceans could eventually regain higher oxygen levels in the centuries ahead, even as the planet continues to warm. About 16 million years ago, the Arabian Sea contained more oxygen than it does today, even though Earth’s climate was warmer...

Until recently, there were no git clients for Plan 9. Upstream git is large, included perl and bash code, and used a large number of system calls that Plan 9 does not support. In addition, it does not feel good to use, with a bewildering array of inconsistent command line arguments and ad-hoc comman...