According to researchers, a new analysis of an 80-million-year-old permineralized pollen cone found in the Campanian Holz Shale formation located in Silverado Canyon, California, offers a more ...

Aug. 16 (UPI) --A newly analyzed amber fossil has offered the earliest evidence of a plant-pollinator relationship between cycads and insects. Pollinators bring to mind flowering plants. Modern ...

When it was established in 1922, South Dakota’s Fossil Cycad National Monument possessed the world’s most significant beds of fossilized, Cretaceous Age cycads, large, fern-like plants. But management ...

LAWRENCE — Cycads, a group of gymnosperms which can resemble miniature palm trees (like the popular sago palm houseplant) were long thought to be “living fossils,” a group that had evolved minimally ...