Artist Macoto Murayama continues to create beautiful images inspired by the intricate structure of flowers. Using the same computer graphics programs and techniques he learned as an architecture ...

Once upon a time on Earth, there was a first flower. Nature provides plenty of cues to help us imagine what the planet looked like 250 million years ago. But we lack concrete evidence in order to ...

Recent advances in molecular phylogenetics and a series of important palaeobotanical discoveries have revolutionized our understanding of angiosperm diversification. Yet, the origin and early ...

Biologists published a study demonstrating that photogrammetry allows rapid and precise three-dimensional reconstruction of flowers from two-dimensional images. To better understand the evolution of ...

A new study reconstructs the evolution of flowers over the past 140 million years and sheds new light on what the earliest flowers might have looked like. A new study published this week in Nature ...

Meghan Holmes is a writer and documentarian specializing in scientific topics such as the environment, invasive species, sustainability, and food issues. She holds a master's in Southern Studies from ...

Yet the 3D structure of flowers is rarely studied, the researchers explain. The use of photogrammetry has real advantages compared to other existing methods, in particular X-ray microtomography, which ...

1. Eleven alfalfa selections were studied at the blossom stage of development in an attempt to relate proportion of flowers tripped by insect pollinators to certain characteristics of the blossoms.

The corpse flower (Amorphophallus titanum) also known as titan arum, reeks of rotting flesh and death when in bloom. Lucky for us, this stinky plant blooms once every seven to nine years according to ...

To better understand the evolution of flowers, a research team in biology from Université de Montréal, the Montreal Botanical Garden and McGill University have succeeded in using photogrammetry to ...