The integration of fossils, phylogeny, and geochronology has resulted in an increasingly
well-resolved timetable of evolution. Life appears to have taken root before the earliest …

Angiosperms (flowering plants) are the most diverse of all major lineages of land plants and
the dominant autotrophs in most terrestrial ecosystems. Their evolutionary and ecological …

Recent advances in molecular phylogenetics and a series of important palaeobotanical
discoveries have revolutionized our understanding of angiosperm diversification. Yet, the …

Species diversity varies greatly across the different taxonomic groups that comprise the Tree
of Life (ToL). This imbalance is particularly conspicuous within angiosperms, but is largely …

That evolutionary history can influence the way that species interact is a basic tenet of
evolutionary ecology. However, when the role of evolution in determining ecological …

PREMISE OF THE STUDY: This paper investigates the occurrence and evolution of
aluminum (Al) accumulation within ferns and lycophytes, which is characterized by Al …

Burmese amber is currently the most important source of Cretaceous amber-preserved
plants. Recent findings indicate a rich cryptogamic diversity in the source forests of this …

Recent findings established the Albian-Cenomanian amber of Myanmar (Burmese amber)
as an important source of Mesozoic cryptogams. Here, we describe an inclusion within …

PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Observations of floral ontogeny indicated that floral organ
initiation in pentapetalous flowers most commonly results in a median‐abaxial (MAB) petal …

Millipedes (Diplopoda) are an important fossil group of land arthropods in the Palaeozoic.
However, there is a gap in the Mesozoic, with only slightly more than a dozen fossils being …