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 ...

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 ...

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

This parasitic plant has no leaves or stems. It spends most of its life as long strands of fibre inside its host, a vine. But ...

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 ...

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 ...

All living things have a blueprint provided by the DNA that is stored in every one of their cells. Yet the amount of DNA in ...

Using a computer model that reveals how plants grow thicker over time, biologists have uncovered how cells are activated to produce wood tissue. Understanding the genetic and molecular signals behind ...

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 ...

Nov. 12, 2024 — Researchers have found evidence that mangrove forests -- which protect tropical and subtropical coastlines -- are drowning in the Maldives. Their finding indicate that rising sea ...

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 ...