It can tell us about vegetation, climate and even human activity through time. Pollen grains are far more than allergens — ...

If pollen allergies are getting to you, you are not alone. Every year, plants release billions of pollen grains into the air, ...

Pollen Grains Preserve Clues About the Earth From the Time When an Asteroid Struck 66 Million Years Ago Nature carried with ...

Tiny Fossils, Big Insight; How We Can Use Fossil Pollen to Understand Earth’s Climate History As a palynologist, I study microscopic fossil spores and pollen that were produced by plants for ...

Drilling cores from Switzerland have revealed the oldest known fossils of the direct ancestors of flowering plants. These beautifully preserved 240-million-year-old pollen grains are evidence that ...

It lasts for an incredibly long time, and it has yielded some of the most incredible fossil discoveries of our ... inside the thick amber casing, are tiny pollen grains. The small specks are ...

“We were actually studying fossil pollen from the same rocks. I had never seen this style of fossil preservation before, and the discovery was doubly surprising because the imprints were found ...

Dripping tree resin encased the petals and pollen, forever showcasing an ephemeral moment in our planet’s past. Scientists have taken a fresh look at the unique amber fossil, which was first ...

The oldest known fossils of pollen-laden insects are of earwig-like ground-dwellers that lived in what is now Russia about 280 million years ago, researchers report. Their finding pushes back the ...

By extracting this pollen, Sadowski and her colleague Christa Hoffman were able to determine which modern-day species the specimen was most closely related to. "Flower fossils of Symplocos are ...