The agency notes, "plant fossils suggest that the sea had retreated and Big Bend had become a drier floodplain environment." More than 80 species of plants and 20 dinosaur species have been ...

The earliest carnivorous plant fossils date back approximately 40 million years, though molecular evidence suggests the trait may have emerged much earlier. For the Giant Pitcher Plant specifically, ...

This insight enabled him to use trilobites and other fossils to constrain the position of the continents throughout time. He has died, aged 79. Fortey was born in Ealing in west London and ...