It uses two entirely different materials found at the site, ancient conifer pollen and quartz grains. The reported age of the footprints challenges the once-conventional wisdom that humans didn ...

"Our team examined over 50,000 fossil pollen records and more than 6,000 leaf fossils from before and after the impact." They found that cone-bearing plants called conifers and ferns were common ...

They isolated tens of thousands of conifer pollen grains from the same soil layer as the pollen. This confirmed that the plant and the cirrhosa seeds coexisted. And because this was a terrestrial ...

Analyses of pollen and spores and the remains of tiny ... while slightly inland hills were populated with beech trees and conifers. Dr Bendle said that as an analogue of modern Earth, the Eocene ...