Trees are typically organized into two categories: hardwoods (angiosperms) and softwoods (gymnosperms). A new study suggests that there is a third type of wood—known as “midwood”—that could explain ...

Named for Charles Darwin, the only known specimen of a newly discovered beetle, Darwinylus marcosi, died in a sticky gob of tree sap some 105 million years ago in what is now northern Spain. As it ...

Plant-insect interactions, one of the critical bedrocks for modern ecosystems, are largely dominated by insect-angiosperm relationships owing to the hegemony enjoyed by flowering plants since the Late ...

Angiosperm is the scientific term for flowering plants. There are believed to be well over 350,000 species of angiosperm and there is a huge diversity among the species'. Angiosperms are a phylum ...

Wall ultrastructure of fossil-dispersed pollen has recently played an important role in increasing our understanding of the origin and early evolution of angiosperms. The criteria currently used to ...

Tree species can affect the soil they are growing on and this might influence their fitness. The New Zealand gymnosperm tree species kauri (Agathis australis (D. Don) Lindl.) which grows in mixed ...