Whether the fossil record should be read at face value or whether it presents a distorted view
of the history of life is an argument seemingly as old as many fossils themselves. In the late …

The Cretaceous–Palaeogene mass extinction event (K-Pg) witnessed upwards of 75% of
animal species going extinct, most notably among these are the non-avian dinosaurs. A …

Flowers are the complex and highly diverse reproductive structures of angiosperms.
Because of their role in sexual reproduction, the evolution of flowers is tightly linked to …

The competitive success of ferns has been foundational to hypotheses about terrestrial
recolonization following biotic upheaval, from wildfires to the Cretaceous–Paleogene …

Ecology spans spatial and temporal scales and is inclusive of the history of life on Earth.
However, research that occurs at millennial timescales or longer has historically been …

A well-preserved suite of∼ 163 spore-pollen taxa from a recently discovered K/Pg interval
within the maritime Oyster Bay Formation, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada …

Last year, we published research using phylogenetic comparative methods (PCMs) to reveal
no phylogenetic evidence for elevated lineage-level extinction rates in angiosperms across …

The Cretaceous/Paleogene (K/Pg) mass extinction was a pivotal event in Earth history, the
latest among five mass extinctions that devastated marine and terrestrial life. Whereas much …

Premise Characterization and phylogenetic integration of fossil angiosperms with uncertain
affinities is relatively limited, which may obscure the diversity of extinct higher taxa in the …

Faulting at the well-known Madrid East K/Pg boundary locality in the Raton Basin of
southeastern Colorado, USA, recently has been interpreted to be the result of remote …