Earlier this year, Lotusland research associate Jeff Chemnick traveled with his wife, UCSB marine science and policy advisor Satie Airame, to China in search of rare cycads, an ancient plant that ...

A 200-million-year-old cycad species that coexisted with dinosaurs and still survives has been discovered in the Amazon.

If you’re thinking about planting something new, cycads are a great way to add flavor to your yard. Now’s the time to plant, because this time of year brings more humid days and more rain. You’ve ...

Research on cycad trees in Colombia, Guam, and the Philippines has illuminated how knowledge of their branching behavior may benefit conservation decisions for the endangered plants. In a study ...

Everyone knows the tiger, the panda, the blue whale, but what about the other five to thirty million species estimated to inhabit our Earth? Many of these marvelous, stunning, and rare species have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The words “pollination” and “flower” may seem inseparable, but plants began courting insects millions of years before they evolved ...

A cycad stands at the United States Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 19. The 300 "modern" cycad species burst onto the scene about 12 million years ago, though the lineage of cycads extends ...

Explore the surprising truths about living fossils, particularly modern cycads, which reveal a complex evolutionary history. But one classic example – a group of plants called the cycads – shows just ...

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 study published in the June 2020 edition of the peer-reviewed journal Horticulturae shows that cycads, which are in decline and among the world's most threatened group of plants, provide an ...

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Although dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago, there are still thought to be a few species left over from those days. Plants called cycads are among these rare "living fossils" — they have remained ...