Fossil Cycad National Monument was removed from the Park Service in 1957, but the story doesn’t end there. More than 20 years ago, in the dusty basement of a park Service library in West Virginia, ...

43, No. 3, Mar., 1907 Morphology of the Trunk and Development ... Morphology of the Trunk and Development of the Microsporangium of Cycads This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section.

The Fossil Forest in Dorset is a 145 million-year ... Ancient species of conifers, tree-ferns and cycads sprouted on what is now the southern coast of England as the ocean retreated.

Cycads were one of the first plants to be pollinated by insects ... They thrive in warm, tropical climates and the distribution of their fossils can help us understand how climate has changed over ...

At the start of the period, dinosaurs ruled the loosening remnants of the supercontinent Pangaea as rodents scurried at their feet through forests of ferns, cycads, and conifers. At the end of the ...

Crumbling landmasses and inland seas. Sea monsters, sharks, and blood-red plankton. Forests of ferns, cycads, and conifers. Warm, moist, tropical breezes. This was the Jurassic, which took place ...

The Fossil Forest in Dorset is a stretch of southern English coastline peppered with living mounds of limestone that hide the remains of cypress trees from the late Jurassic period.