When you think of fossils, things like dinosaurs or ancient ... “sea lilies” even though they’re technically animals, not plants. They have been around since the late Cambrian, some 500 ...

A CT scan, or computed tomography scan, is a noninvasive medical imaging procedure that uses X-rays to create detailed pictures ... fossil and concluded that it was some type of plant.

Newly discovered fossils matched up with a mysterious “alien plant” species found in 1969 and brought it to clearer life. It’s even stranger than scientists initially thought it was. Researchers first ...

But it’s not. While there really are interesting parallels between photos and fossils, one inescapable difference between the two is the human brain. Unlike fossils, which can give our brains ...

A coal mine is so interesting, because you always find fossil plants there. This Bigar site became a field laboratory. Each year, I teach a field course there on geological mapping. I now spend ...

New research shows that a fossilized plant from the Green River Formation is even stranger than scientists originally thought ...

The earliest known fossil of a terrestrial plant that shows almost its entire structure has gone on display for the first time in the world at an exhibition in Tokyo. Although it was discovered ...