Tag: flowering plants
Fossil Friday: Florigerminis, Another Failed Candidate for a Jurassic Flowering Plant
You are in good company if you are as skeptical about these claims as I am myself.
Biology Helps Us Understand the Blessing of Grasses
Don’t walk on the grass, that “often undervalued” form of life, without looking down. It’s amazing down there.
Deadly Beauty: Golden Rain
Golden rain is in full bloom on our terrace in Echsenbach (Lower Austria). The seeds are highly poisonous but it is a real beauty.
Bechly: “Life’s Second ‘Big Bang'”
He touches on other biological explosions, including the Avalon explosion, the Triassic explosion, and the origin of flowering plants.
Abstract: Lönnig on Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”
All orders and families of the angiosperms appear abruptly in the fossil record (the same for most lower systematic categories).