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 ...

Paleobotanist Mario Coiro of the Institute of Paleontology at the University of Vienna and colleagues at the University of Montpellier (France) have made an important breakthrough in understanding the ...

Simply looking at a cycad can take you back in time. The rough, stout trunk rising into a spray of stiff, palm-like leaves can feel better suited to the Late Cretaceous than our modern world, as if a ...

Botanists have long puzzled over a peculiarity of ancient plants called cycads: they have huge, bright, fleshy seeds displayed in enormous cones. Botanists have long puzzled over a peculiarity of ...

Flowering plants are well known for their special relationship to the insects and other animals that serve as their pollinators. But, before the rise of angiosperms, another group of unusual evergreen ...

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 man who calls himself Marty Sterns is taking care of business in the faux French Provincial dining room of a top-floor suite in the Las Vegas Mirage. Sterns is a small, trim man in his late 40's ...

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 ...

Experts warn that lucrative trade in endangered varieties of the world’s oldest seed plant could lead to extinction, after 24 rare cycads stolen from Cape Town botanical gardens They are 340 million ...

New research has revealed that younger cycad seeds pose a greater risk for toxicity when consumed than more mature seeds, bringing the scientific community one step closer to understanding the origins ...

The first complete cycad genome offers an invaluable solution to sex determination, one of the largest conservation challenges in these enigmatic plants. Many wild cycad species exist in small, ...