We found something striking: nearly 130 million years ago, during the Cretaceous geologic period, ferns and flowering plants ...

Ferns are an entire family of plants unrelated to the rest of the world of flowering plants. These plants use spores instead to reproduce, much like fungi. They’re considered closely related to ...

Flowering plants, or angiosperms, make up about 90% of all living plant species, including most food crops. In the distant past, they outpaced plants such as conifers and ferns, which predate them ...