Research by Assistant Professor Jacob S. Suissa at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is revealing complexity in how ferns have evolved. Instead of the vascular structure inside fern stems ...

Analyses of genetic material from a multitude of fern species suggest that much of that plant group branched out millions of years after flowering plants appeared, a notion that contradicts many ...

Researchers in Sweden have unearthed a 180 million year old fossilised fern in near pristine condition. The fossil, found in a bed of volcanic rock, was so well preserved that microscopic analysis ...

A remarkably preserved, 180-million-year-old fossilized fern has been unearthed in Sweden. The fern was in such pristine condition that its tiny cellular parts were intact, according to a study ...