International Journal of Plant Sciences, Vol. 180, No. 2 (FEBRUARY 2019), pp. 93-127 (35 pages) Premise of research. Small angiosperm fossils are diverse in Early Cretaceous mesofossil floras from ...

While pollinators such as bees and butterflies provide crucial ecosystem services today, little is known about the origin of the intimate association between flowering plants and insects. Now, a new ...

An amber fossil of a Cretaceous beetle has shed some light on the diet of one of the earliest pollinators of flowering plants. An amber fossil of a Cretaceous beetle has shed some light on the diet of ...

April 12 (UPI) --A newly discovered mid-Cretaceous amber fossil suggests an early beetle species, Pelretes vivificus, visited flowering plants and ate their pollen. Today, the majority of pollination ...

Machine generated contents note: Preface; 1. Introduction to angiosperms; 2. The nature of the angiosperm fossil record; 3. The environmental context of early angiosperm evolution; 4. Stratigraphic ...

While the extinction affected some flower species, most lineages survived and the catastrophe may have helped them become a dominant form of plant life. By Jack Tamisiea When a mountain-size slab of ...

Az Klymiuk (University of Manitoba) receives/has received funding from the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC-CRSNG), the TAWANI Foundation (through the Field Museum of ...

The world as we know it today is almost inconceivable without the rich and colourful landscapes created by plant life. Among them are flowering plants, or angiosperms, which are by far the most ...

southward migration of many taxa and permanent disappearance from high latitudes of mesothermal forms. Superimposed on the poleward and equatorward migrations with warming or cooling trends were ...

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An amber fossil of a Cretaceous beetle has shed some light on the diet of one of the earliest pollinators of flowering plants. The animal's remains were unearthed by researchers at the University of ...