The ancient cycad lineage has been around since before the age of the dinosaurs. More recently, cycads also co-existed with large herbivorous mammals, such as the ice age megafauna that only went ...

At first glance, a cycad plant - a "sago palm"- could pass for a true palm, with its single cylindrical trunk topped by a cluster of fronds. Palms and cycads are sold side by side in specialized ...

A new study debunks the idea that modern species of cycads were present at the time dinosaurs roamed the Earth. IT WAS BELIEVED that dinosaurs in the Jurassic period roamed among them. But now, a ...

Cycads all have separate male and female plants. The male cones tend to be longer and thinner than the female ones. Cones, especially male ones during pollen release, heat up significantly and produce ...

Aug. 16 (UPI) --A newly analyzed amber fossil has offered the earliest evidence of a plant-pollinator relationship between cycads and insects. Pollinators bring to mind flowering plants. Modern ...

Even among the most ancient plants, sex could be a hot, smelly affair. The evidence comes from an Australian cycad that uses a nasty odour not only to lure tiny insects into collecting pollen, but ...

Cycads been around since before the age of the dinosaurs. Cycads living today have large, heavy seeds that suggests they rely on large fruit-eating animals to disperse their seeds. Yet there is little ...