After 180 million years buried in volcanic rock in the southern tip of Sweden, a recently discovered fern fossil looks almost as good as new. The matchbox-sized fossil is among the best ever preserved ...

A remarkably preserved, 180-million-year-old fossilized fern has been unearthed in Sweden. The fern was in such pristine condition that its tiny cellular parts were intact, according to a study ...

(WHTM) — October 11 is National Fossil Day when paleontologists, students, and educators hold fossil-related events across the county celebrating and teaching the importance of paleontology. This is ...

This film explores the evolution of vascular plants, particularly ferns, through the study of ancient plant fossils. It highlights the anatomical features and adaptations that allowed early plants to ...

As a kid, I remember watching time-lapse videos of a flower blooming or of the sun racing across the sky. Of course, things don't happen that way in nature with one possible exception: sprouting, ...

(WHTM)– A Pennsylvania lawmaker says she will soon propose a bill that would change Pennsylvania’s state fossil. The Pennsylvania State fossil is currently a type of trilobite called Phacops rana.

Fifty-two taxa of living and extinct vascular plants were evaluated in an unconstrained numerical cladistic analysis using 101 morphological characters to simultaneously resolve the phylogenetic ...

A violent death has led to a remarkably lucky preservation. Researchers in Sweden have discovered ferns that were buried suddenly in a volcanic eruption during the Jurassic period. The sudden burial ...

The first known indicator of probable fern epiphytism in the Tertiary fossil record is documented from the Eocene London Clay of southeast England. This pyritised fern rachis exhibits major deviation ...

A remarkably preserved, 180-million-year-old fossilized fern has been unearthed in Sweden. The fern was in such pristine condition that its tiny cellular parts were intact, according to a study ...