When "gymnosperms" dominated terrestrial ecosystems. Today, angiosperms dominate most of the planet's terrestrial ecosystems, but this has not always been the case: ...

Gymnosperms are a diverse group of seed plants, including pines, cypresses, sequoias, ginkgos, and cycads. The research indicates that genome duplication in ancestors of modern gymnosperms likely ...

Gymnosperms (Gymnospermae) are a group of seed-bearing plants with ovules borne on the edge or blade of an open sporophyll, the sporophylls usually arranged in cone-like structures. The other ...

But gymnosperms also comprise gnetales (like W. mirabilis), the palm-like cycads and ginkgo, also known as the maidenhair tree. When dinosaurs roamed Earth, ...

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The Sago palm, Cycas revoluta, of course, is not a palm at all, but a gymnosperm, and thus more closely related to pine trees than palms.The botanist in me wants to remind you that gymnosperms are ...

Gymnosperm means “naked seed” and comes from the same Greek root as gymnastics, which means to exercise naked. This group of plants is so named because the seeds are not enclosed inside an ovary, ...

Journal Information. PALAIOS content emphasizes the impact of life on Earth's history. Founded in 1986, it is a bimonthly journal which disseminates information to an international spectrum of ...