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

Palynologists who study tiny pollen fossils share 4 stories found in grains that fell hundreds to millions of years ago.

If you are sneezing this spring, you are not alone. Every year, plants release billions of pollen grains into the air, specks of male reproductive material that many of us notice only when we get ...

Breakthrough discovery of 123-million-year-old pollen grains in Portugal pushes back flowering plant evolution by 2 million ...

A 14.6-million-year-old fossilized Leioproctus bee has been discovered, calling into question current theories about ...

As a result, by 100 million years ago, the forests of Victoria included an open conifer-dominated forest canopy. The ...

The smell called petrichor is a reminder of the fascinating and extremely valuable bacteria that thrive in the ground beneath ...

Tiny bone fragments from Alaska suggest birds started breeding and nesting in the Arctic 30 million years earlier than ...