Benjamin Bomfleur, Anne-Laure Decombeix, Andrew B. Schwendemann, Ignacio H. Escapa, Edith L. Taylor, Thomas N. Taylor and Stephen McLoughlin Premise of research. Well-preserved Triassic plant fossils ...

LAWRENCE -- A team of investigators from the University of Kansas currently is stationed at Antarctica's Shackleton Glacier to collect the remains of plants that once thrived there during the boundary ...

In this paper we describe the first anatomically preserved Mesozoic seed fern cupule-Petriellaea. The multiovulate cupules were produced singly at the end of a short dichotomizing axis. Cupules are ...

THE fourteenth of the splendid series of monographs issued, and so liberally distributed, by the U.S Geological Survey, is by Prof. Newberry, and deals with the fossil fishes and plants of the east ...

This happens through natural processes like plant growth and chemical weathering, where CO2 is absorbed and locked into soils, rocks, or ocean sediments. But the new research shows that these systems ...

Sofie Lindström and fellow Senior researcher Gunver Pedersen (GEUS) during fieldwork in Sweden, sampling sediments that were deposited in forested mires and rivers at the onset of the end-Triassic ...

Like a detective trying to pick up the trail of a killer by sifting through seemingly innocuous objects left at the scene of the crime, Jennifer McElwain these days is looking closely at old leaves ...

Massive eruptions transformed the climate in the Triassic era, creating the conditions in which dinosaurs diversified into many more species. By Sam Jones The relationship between dinosaurs and ...

Roughly 252 million years ago, Earth experienced its deadliest known extinction. Known as the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction, or “The Great Dying,” this cataclysm wiped out over 80% of marine ...