Dinosaur Evergreens Thought Extinct for 2Mil Years Discovered by Park Ranger–the Grove is the ‘Find of the Century’ (www.goodnewsnetwork.org)
Plants that survived dinosaur extinction pulled nitrogen from air, study concludes (phys.org)
Once a favored food of grazing dinosaurs, an ancient lineage of plants called cycads helped sustain these and other prehistoric animals during the Mesozoic Era, starting 252 million years ago, by being plentiful in the forest understory. Today, just a few species of the palm-like plants survive in tropical and subtropical...
Bizarre Fossils Are Neither Plant Nor Animal, But a 'Weird Fusion' of Life (www.sciencealert.com)
Dark Earth Deciphered: Ancient Amazonians Intentionally Created Fertile “Dark Earth” (scitechdaily.com)
A Canadian lake holds the key to the beginning of the Anthropocene, a new geological epoch (theconversation.com)
'Living fossil' tree frozen in time for 66 million years being planted in secret locations (www.livescience.com)
The Silurian Period (That We Know Of) ft. Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't (www.youtube.com)
How to obtain new paleoecological data from under researched regions? And is there an interest from the scientific community?
From my time at uni I’ve noticed on several maps showing hotspots and data focused mostly on regions such as Europe or North America, but not much is known from less thought about regions such as the Pacific islands or Africa. Now there are various theoretical ways to gain data and spark and interest in those region but there...
These long-necked reptiles were decapitated by their predators, fossil evidence confirms (phys.org)
The robustness of some Carboniferous fossil leaf venation networks to simulated damage (royalsocietypublishing.org)
Fossilized forest unearthed in the UK is the oldest ever found at 390 million years old (www.livescience.com)
Fossilized trees discovered by chance in southwest England belong to Earth’s earliest-known forest, new research has found. The 390 million-year-old fossils supplant the Gilboa fossil forest in New York state, which dates back 386 million years, as the world’s oldest known forest....
Volcanic Lightning May Have Retooled the Nitrogen Needed for Life - Eos (eos.org)
How did life on Earth begin? The chemical puzzle just became clearer. (www.washingtonpost.com)
Trilobites rise from the ashes to reveal ancient map (phys.org)
Substantial light woodland and open vegetation (Savannah) characterized the temperate forest biome before Homo sapiens in Europe (www.science.org)
New research reveals why and when the Sahara Desert was green (phys.org)
Miracle Plant Used in Ancient Greece Rediscovered After 2,000 Years (greekreporter.com)
Your Legacy on Earth May Be a Plant (worldsensorium.com)
How A National Monument Full of Fossils Was Stolen to Death: Fossil Cycad National Monument held America’s richest deposit of petrified cycadeoid plants, until it didn’t. (www.atlasobscura.com)
A Bear That Looked Like a Raccoon and Had a Dangerous Appetite (www.nytimes.com)
World's earliest fossilised forest discovered in Minehead, Somerset (www.bbc.co.uk)
Mollusk Eyes Reveal How Future Evolution Depends on the Past | Quanta Magazine (www.quantamagazine.org)
Unearthing The Oldest Forest on Earth: Two Hours from New York City You Can Travel Back Nearly 400 Million Years (worldsensorium.com)
Study shows orchid family emerged in northern hemisphere and thrived alongside dinosaurs for 20 million years (phys.org)
A botanical Pompeii: we found spectacular Australian plant fossils from 30 million years ago (theconversation.com)
