Bizarre Fossils Are Neither Plant Nor Animal, But a 'Weird Fusion' of Life (www.sciencealert.com)
Earliest known parasitic fungus discovered in fossilized plant frozen in time 400 million years ago (www.livescience.com)
Dinosaur Evergreens Thought Extinct for 2Mil Years Discovered by Park Ranger–the Grove is the ‘Find of the Century’ (www.goodnewsnetwork.org)
23 million-year-old petrified mangrove forest discovered hiding in plain sight in Panama (www.livescience.com)
Study of ancient British oral microbiomes reveals shift following Black Death | Penn State University (www.psu.edu)
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...
Miracle Plant Used in Ancient Greece Rediscovered After 2,000 Years (greekreporter.com)
World's oldest trees reveal the largest solar storm in history (bigthink.com)
How ‘parachute science’ in paleontology plays out in 3 countries | Science News (www.sciencenews.org)
The robustness of some Carboniferous fossil leaf venation networks to simulated damage (royalsocietypublishing.org)
World's earliest fossilised forest discovered in Minehead, Somerset (www.bbc.co.uk)
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....
Mollusk Eyes Reveal How Future Evolution Depends on the Past | Quanta Magazine (www.quantamagazine.org)
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)
Unearthing The Oldest Forest on Earth: Two Hours from New York City You Can Travel Back Nearly 400 Million Years (worldsensorium.com)
'Living fossil' tree frozen in time for 66 million years being planted in secret locations (www.livescience.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)
Optimisation of classification methods to differentiate morphologically-similar pollen grains from FT-IR spectra (www.sciencedirect.com)
Trees from million years ago look completely different, rare fossils reveal (www.independent.co.uk)
Pollen diaries: Polar ice records preserve climate vs. human impact following Little Ice Age (phys.org)
Making the invisible visible: tracing the origins of plants in West African cuisine through archaeobotanical and organic residue analysis - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (link.springer.com)
1.6-billion-year-old fossils push back origin of multicellular life by tens of millions of years (www.livescience.com)
The botanical imperialism of weeds and crops: how alien plant species on the First Fleet changed Australia (theconversation.com)
