Paleo News

Select articles & updates about Paleobotany, Plant Evolution, & Geologic History

└Castillo et al. (2024) Predicting rapid adaptation in time from adaptation in space: A 30-year field experiment in marine snails

└Nicholson et al. (2024) 3D anatomy of the Cretaceous–Paleogene age Nadir Crater

└Wang et al. (2024) Alasemenia, the earliest ovule with three wings and without cupule

└Thomas & Catlings (2024) Three-stage formation of cap carbonates after Marinoan snowball glaciation consistent with depositional timescales and geochemistry

└Knecht et al. (2024) Early Pennsylvanian Lagerstätte reveals a diverse ecosystem on a subhumid, alluvial fan

└Sun et al. (2024) Mega El Niño instigated the end-Permian mass extinction 

└ O'Connor et al. (2024) Direct evidence of frugivory in the Mesozoic bird Longipteryx contradicts morphological proxies for diet

└Stroud et al. (2024) Fluctuating selection maintains distinct species phenotypes in an ecological community in the wild

└Peris et al. (2024) The impact of thermogenesis on the origin of insect pollination

└Hohmann et al. (2024) Identification of the mode of evolution in incomplete carbonate successions

└Mil et al. (2024) Bristlecone Pine Maximum Latewood Density as a Superior Proxy for Millennium-Length Temperature Reconstructions

└Bierman et al. (2024) Plant, insect, and fungi fossils under the center of Greenland’s ice sheet are evidence of ice-free times

└└Dorey et al. (2024) Biotic interactions promote local adaptation to soil in plants

└Li et al. (2024) Evolutionary history shapes variation of wood density of tree species across the world

└Holstad et al. (2024) Evolvability predicts macroevolution under fluctuating selection

└Huang et al. (2024) Near-collapse of the geomagnetic field may have contributed to atmospheric oxygenation and animal radiation in the Ediacaran Period

└Coiro et al. (2024) Parallel evolution of angiosperm-like venation in Peltaspermales: a reinvestigation of Furcula

└Cohen et al. (2024) Natural soda lakes provide compatible conditions for RNA and membrane function that could have enabled the origin of life

└Adaïmé et al. (2024) Deep learning approaches to the phylogenetic placement of extinct pollen morphotypes

└Davies et al. (2024) Earth's earliest forest: fossilized trees and vegetation-induced sedimentary structures from the Middle Devonian (Eifelian) Hangman Sandstone Formation, Somerset and Devon, SW England

└Pérez-Escobar et al. (2024) The origin and speciation of orchids

 └Dutkiewicz et al. (2024) Duration of Sturtian “Snowball Earth” glaciation linked to exceptionally low mid-ocean ridge outgassing

└Gastaldo et al. (2024) Enigmatic fossil plants with three-dimensional, arborescent-growth architecture from the earliest Carboniferous of New Brunswick, Canada

└Palma-Castro et al. (2023) An Early Cretaceous Sphenophyllum or a hatchling turtle?

└Cavalazzi et al. (2021) Cellular remains in a ~3.42-billion-year-old subseafloor hydrothermal environment

└Silvestro et al. (2021) Fossil data support a pre-Cretaceous origin of flowering plants

└ Donovan et al. (2020) Persistent biotic interactions of a Gondwanan conifer from Cretaceous Patagonia to modern Malesia.

└ Rosetto-Harris et al. (2020) Eocene Araucaria Sect. Eutacta from Patagonia and floristic turnover during the initial isolation of South America