Ferns and their allies are a pervasive part of life on Earth. One of the most primitive and successful plant lineages, ferns arose during the Devonian Period of the Paleozoic Era, which spanned 60 ...

Fresh examination of an Australian fossil -- believed to be among the earliest plants on Earth -- has revealed evidence of a new plant species that existed in Australia more than 359 Million years ago ...

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It was an early April morning and Nature was playing tricks on us. The weather had been cold and raw for days, but then suddenly there was a break from the trend. The temperature soared into the high ...

II. W HEN we reach the Upper Devonian flora we find ourselves in the midst of a comparatively familiar vegetation. A few of the early forms may have survived, but the bulk of the plants were highly ...

Antoine Champreux, a PhD student in the Global Ecology Lab at Flinders University, has catalogued the discovery of the new fern-like plant species as part of an international effort to examine the ...