3 min read During the Ordovician period, part of the Paleozoic era, a rich variety of marine life flourished in the vast seas and the first primitive plants began to appear on land—before the ...

When it blooms, this stinky flower releases chemicals that smell like rotting flesh to attact pollinators, such as carrion ...

In the Late Ordovician era, they formed a symbiotic ... The lack of sunlight that followed the asteroid impact meant that the plant life that didn’t die on impact would start to decay rapidly ...

Caribou and muskoxen significantly affect Arctic plant growth, revealing their overlooked role in climate impacts.

As a result, ground-up bedrock, plant fragments ... two-sided jigsaw blade. In life, the rhabadosome was suspended from a "float" by a slender thread called a nema. Late Ordovician Period - The ...

A new study suggests that extreme temperatures could lead to a mass extinction event, ending the reign of humans and mammals ...

Today it represents something quite different: a set of extraordinary clues, recently reinterpreted, to one of the deepest and most puzzling mysteries of life ... and the Ordovician period that ...

L ike many of us, Earth bears old pockmarks. Our planet’s crust has a band of ancient craters that formed around 465 million ...

Plants are amazing! Especially when we look at their life cycle, from first growth to reproduction. It all starts with a seed that cracks open and starts to grow when it has the right amount of ...

The more a plant species invests in defense, the less potential it has for growth, according to a study. Research made possible by open science provides new insights into plant adaptation and ...

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When Christian Dior came to Scotland: 'I was even more struck by the beauty of the country, the castles, and the moors, than I had expected' Seventy years after Christian Dior’s last fashion show in ...