Same, but different Cycads may look like they belong in a Jurassic swamp, but a new study has revealed they evolved long after dinosaurs disappeared. It was thought that cycads — a group of ...

Flowers are often described as visual advertisements, using bright colors and strong scents to draw in insects. Yet long before petals and pigments dominated the landscape, some plants relied on a ...

At first glance, a cycad plant - a "sago palm"- could pass for a true palm, with its single cylindrical trunk topped by a cluster of fronds. Palms and cycads are sold side by side in specialized ...

A new study published in Science shows that these plants—called cycads—use infrared radiation from heat as a signal to ...

The distinctive cycad plant is popular the world over, as much for its attractive green fronds as for its link to the prehistoric world. Biology textbooks and botanic gardens everywhere refer to them ...

A new flush of Encephalartos barterii at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden. Older leaves should not be removed because new leaves are sensitive and can be easily injured while older leaves store ...

An ancient lineage of plants that resembles palm trees and are known as cycads once flourished on the Earth. Their descendants of these ancient plants were thought to be "living fossils" that were ...

A new study debunks the idea that modern species of cycads were present at the time dinosaurs roamed the Earth. IT WAS BELIEVED that dinosaurs in the Jurassic period roamed among them. But now, a ...

RNA-expression patterns in the tips of the weevils’ antennae suggests that these organs produce a protein known to help other ...

Cycads been around since before the age of the dinosaurs. Cycads living today have large, heavy seeds that suggests they rely on large fruit-eating animals to disperse their seeds. Yet there is little ...