It isn't in only textbooks that medicine has shed its sequins for a power suit. After Richard Gordon's death, the doctor joined the dodo. No more may the humble ...

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 ...

I know what you’re thinking—cycad? What in the world is a cycad? Well, although you may not know the name of this group of plants, you’ve probably seen them before. Often mistaken for palms or ferns, ...

The trail winds its way through a grove of cycads and ferns spreading their leaves in the filtered sunlight. Just ahead, a staghorn fern is a burst of green from the trunk of a redwood tree. Your gaze ...

Cycads are an ancient group of plants that have been around since the age of dinosaurs. They were dominant plants at that time, but most are currently considered endangered. While there are more than ...

When a plant changes little except in size over 300 million years, it has already reached its climax of evolution. Surviving ice ages and meteors and volcanic eruptions proves it is naturally able to ...

A chilling warning came to the Chicago Park District with the record January cold snap: something must be done soon to rehabilitate Garfield Park Conservatory, or the city could lose the country’s ...

Names matter. That's why the former Primitive Plant Garden at the San Francisco Botanical Garden is now the Ancient Plant Garden. Nan Arens, professor of geoscience at Hobart and William Smith ...

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 ...