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Dozens of Bizarre Ancient Lifeforms Discovered in ‘Extraordinary’ Fossil Find

Colonists upended Aboriginal farming, growing grain and running sheep on rich yamfields, and cattle on arid grainlands

The Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Created the Amazon Rain Forest

Fossil evidence found of humans domesticating avocados 7,500 years ago

The Famous Bering Land Bridge Was More Like a Swamp, Geologists Say

Fossil amphibians found in burrows where they waited for the next rainy season

Peaches spread across North America through Indigenous networks, radiocarbon dating and document analysis show

Woman accidentally discovers 280 million-year-old lost world while hiking in Italian Alps

Discovery of a 2000-year-old fig reveals Ireland’s ancient international food trade

Mammalian fossils reveal how southern Europe's ecosystem changed during the Pleistocene

Diatom Arrangements – The Hidden Beauty of Single Cell Algae Art Arrangements

Strange and wondrous creatures: plankton and the origins of life on Earth

'Closer than people think': Woolly mammoth 'de-extinction' is nearing reality — and we have no idea what happens next

Mass extinction 66 million years ago triggered rapid evolution of bird genomes

Scientists Uncover the Ancient Origins of Baobab Trees in Genetic Study

The robustness of some Carboniferous fossil leaf venation networks to simulated damage

World's earliest fossilised forest discovered in Minehead, Somerset

Fossilized forest unearthed in the UK is the oldest ever found at 390 million years old

Mollusk Eyes Reveal How Future Evolution Depends on the Past | Quanta Magazine

Volcanic Lightning May Have Retooled the Nitrogen Needed for Life - Eos

How did life on Earth begin? The chemical puzzle just became clearer.

Unearthing The Oldest Forest on Earth: Two Hours from New York City You Can Travel Back Nearly 400 Million Years

'Living fossil' tree frozen in time for 66 million years being planted in secret locations

Study shows orchid family emerged in northern hemisphere and thrived alongside dinosaurs for 20 million years

A botanical Pompeii: we found spectacular Australian plant fossils from 30 million years ago

Optimisation of classification methods to differentiate morphologically-similar pollen grains from FT-IR spectra

Dinosaur Evergreens Thought Extinct for 2Mil Years Discovered by Park Ranger–the Grove is the ‘Find of the Century’

Trees from million years ago look completely different, rare fossils reveal

Pollen diaries: Polar ice records preserve climate vs. human impact following Little Ice Age

Making the invisible visible: tracing the origins of plants in West African cuisine through archaeobotanical and organic residue analysis - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

1.6-billion-year-old fossils push back origin of multicellular life by tens of millions of years

The botanical imperialism of weeds and crops: how alien plant species on the First Fleet changed Australia

Use it or lose it: How seagrasses conquered the sea

New fossils suggest kelp forests have swayed in the seas for at least 32 million years

Bizarre Fossils Are Neither Plant Nor Animal, But a 'Weird Fusion' of Life

The Silurian Period (That We Know Of) ft. Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't

Pollen in Polar Ice Implies Eastern Canadian Forest Dynamics Diverged From Climate After European Settlement

The 'dark earth' revealing the Amazon's secrets

New evidence that polar bears survived 1,600 years of ice-free summers in the early Holocene

23 million-year-old petrified mangrove forest discovered hiding in plain sight in Panama

Deep Beneath Earth’s Surface, Clues to Life’s Origins | Quanta Magazine

Permian marine mass extinction linked to volcanism-induced anoxia

Lost history of Antarctica revealed in octopus DNA: Genes show signatures of an ice sheet collapse and warn of a precarious future

Millennial processes of population decline, range contraction and near extinction of the European bison

Earliest known parasitic fungus discovered in fossilized plant frozen in time 400 million years ago

Study reshapes understanding of mass extinction in Late Devonian era

Study of ancient British oral microbiomes reveals shift following Black Death | Penn State University

Floral time travel: Flowers were more diverse 100 million years ago than they are today

Looking for 'LUCA' and the timing of cellular evolution