Over 100 million years ago, the understory of late Mesozoic forests was dominated by a diverse group of plants of the class Equisetopsida. Today, only one genus from this group, Equisetum (also ...

Over 100 million years ago, the understory of late Mesozoic forests was dominated by a diverse group of plants of the class Equisetopsida. Today, only one genus from this group, Equisetum (also ...

Equisetum is a spore-bearing plant commonly known as the "scouring rush" or "horsetail," and close relatives of the modern genus are known in the fossil record as far back as the Triassic.

A study of a fossilized pterosaur from China has confirmed that some of these prehistoric creatures had a surprisingly varied ...

Field Horsetail (Equisetum arvense) is a cosmopolitan fern widespread throughout the Northern Hemisphere, found in moist sites along roadsides and riverbanks as well as in fields, marshes, pastures, ...

The weed is notoriously difficult to eradicate and has become an increasingly common issue on housing developments across the UK ...

On a recent camp out, I was amazed to see a plant that “we” have in the Southwest called equisetum, or horsetail. I didn’t think it grew in western Wisconsin!

Rare tree fossils preserved with their leaves have an architecture unlike any plant known today and represent the earliest evidence of smaller trees growing beneath the forest canopy.

An “alien plant” fossil discovered 55 years ago just outside of an abandoned town in Utah has no relation to any currently existing or extinct species, scientists revealed in a study last month.

Researchers have identified 12 ancestral plant species from an early Eocene fossil assemblage in Tasmania that once formed part of a giant, circumpolar forest.