A contribution to the later Tertiary paleobotany of the western United States which was largely completed during tenure as National Research Council Fellow at the U. S. National Museum, 1939-1940 and ...

HENRY N. ANDREWS JR. WAS an outstanding pioneer in North American paleobotany during the twentieth century. His explorations of past plant life, especially in the structure, development, and ...

CU Boulder alumni Judy and Rod McKeever donate a tree once considered extinct to the EBIO greenhouse, giving students a living example of modern conservation Wally probably doesn’t know he’s a ...

The Field Museum was well-represented at the 11th International Organisation of Palaeobotany meeting in Prague (originally to be held in summer 2020). Negaunee Assistant Curator of Paleobotany Fabiany ...

New research reveals that shifts in plant life played a key role in speeding up major climate changes during the late Miocene, a period spanning 11.6 to 5.3 million years ago.

THE publication of a short but comprehensive A text-book of palæobotany in English is a noteworthy event, for great progress has been made during the last forty years in our knowledge of fossil plants ...

THEY say the trouble with palseobotany is the number and plasticity of its theories; but these are only symptoms. The real trouble is its facts. To be sure, there are lots which are clearly enough ...

An “alien plant” fossil discovered 55 years ago just outside of an abandoned town in Utah has no relation to any currently existing or extinct species, scientists revealed in a study last month.

A MIND-boggling discovery has left scientists even more puzzled about one of the most mysterious fossils ever found. A 47-million-year-old plant fossil, first unearthed in Utah’s Green River Formation ...

The plant was entirely unique, with features no modern plant shares, making it an outsider in the fossil record A MIND-boggling discovery has left scientists even more puzzled about one of the most ...

Researchers compared the fossil to over 400 flowering plant families and found no match, suggesting it belongs to an unknown group. A recent study published in the journal Annals of Botany revealed ...