Same, but different Cycads may look like they belong in a Jurassic swamp, but a new study has revealed they evolved long after dinosaurs disappeared. It was thought that cycads — a group of ...

Paleobotanist Mario Coiro of the Institute of Paleontology at the University of Vienna and colleagues at the University of Montpellier (France) have made an important breakthrough in understanding the ...

Simply looking at a cycad can take you back in time. The rough, stout trunk rising into a spray of stiff, palm-like leaves can feel better suited to the Late Cretaceous than our modern world, as if a ...

Botanists have long puzzled over a peculiarity of ancient plants called cycads: they have huge, bright, fleshy seeds displayed in enormous cones. Botanists have long puzzled over a peculiarity of ...

A new flush of Encephalartos barterii at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden. Older leaves should not be removed because new leaves are sensitive and can be easily injured while older leaves store ...

Flowering plants are well known for their special relationship to the insects and other animals that serve as their pollinators. But, before the rise of angiosperms, another group of unusual evergreen ...

The distinctive cycad plant is popular the world over, as much for its attractive green fronds as for its link to the prehistoric world. Biology textbooks and botanic gardens everywhere refer to them ...

Cycads been around since before the age of the dinosaurs. Cycads living today have large, heavy seeds that suggests they rely on large fruit-eating animals to disperse their seeds. Yet there is little ...

Experts warn that lucrative trade in endangered varieties of the world’s oldest seed plant could lead to extinction, after 24 rare cycads stolen from Cape Town botanical gardens They are 340 million ...

A tropical plant has produced male and female cones outdoors in the UK for the first time in 60 million years, in an event that botanists say is a clear indication of climate change. Two cycads (cycas ...