More than 250 million years ago, long before the rise of dinosaurs and seed plants, ferns dominated the landscape. The nonflowering ferns (including the related horsetails and club mosses) grew to the ...

Ferns and their allies, like club mosses and horsetails, have traditionally been grouped together as pteridophytes, a group of vascular plants that reproduce by spores rather than seeds. The spores of ...

Welcome to the club Besides the popular Selaginella canaliculata, there are a few other club or spike mosses out there.

So many of us have the wrong impression of ferns, including me, who thought that giant staghorns weren't really ferns but some sort of epiphyte more closely related to bromeliads or tillandsia ...

Need more? Watch for the elegant unfurling of ferns and fern-like allies. Allies include horsetail rushes and swaths of club moss that look like tiny pine forests.

When I was at school, I was taught that coal is referred to as a “fossil fuel” because it was formed hundreds of millions of years ago from compressed land-based plant matter such as giant ferns, ...

New research scheduled to appear as the journal Nature’s cover story on February 1 concludes that ferns and horsetails are not -- as currently believed -- lower, transitional evolutionary grades ...

Until recently, club mosses were considered relatives of ferns ("fern allies") — and are included in just about every field guide to ferns.

Vegetation included giant club mosses, tree ferns, great horsetails, and towering trees with strap-shaped leaves.

Our maximum-likelihood analysis shows unambiguously that horsetails and ferns together are the closest relatives to seed plants.

The Fossil Collecting Authority (FCA) said on Monday it had fined the dinosaur 40mn helpings of ferns, horsetails and club mosses after finding that the creature’s “conduct 145mn years ago was ...

More than 250 million years ago, long before the rise of dinosaurs and seed plants, ferns dominated the landscape. The nonflowering ferns (including the related horsetails and club mosses) grew to the ...