Discover more about this prehistoric plant life and how to grow your own small dinosaur ... Alagz/ Shutterstock During the time of the dinosaurs, woody trees became more common. In among a ground ...

Today flowering plant species outnumber by twenty to one those of ferns and cone-bearing trees, or conifers, which had thrived for 200 million years before the first bloom appeared. As a food ...

A new book details how lignin once protected algae from UV radiation, then later in evolutionary time became a structural support for trees. The following is an excerpt from When the Earth Was Green: ...

dinosaurs roamed vast coniferous forests with ancient trees, colossal cycads, ferns, and mosses. Over millennia of geographical information, these prehistoric plants became the coal and oil we use ...