What was their great innovation? Botanists call flowering plants angiosperms, from the Greek words for "vessel" and "seed." Unlike conifers, which produce seeds in open cones, angiosperms enclose ...

A precious flower fossil was recently discovered in Laiyang, East China's Shandong Province, the Chinanews.com reported on ...

Correlations between leaf-margin and prevailing climatic influences are more strikingly shown among trees and large shrubs than among herbs, as might naturally be expected, when the fundamental ...