Tag Archive for 'Palm'

Palm phytoliths from the Eocene Giraffe locality (a-q) and modern phytoliths extracted from foliage of the coryphoid palm Trachycarpus fortunei. Image credit: Siver et al., doi: 10.1093/aob/mcaf021.

Palm Fossils from Subarctic Canada Imply Ice-Free Winters 48 Million Years Ago

Feb 20, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Palm trees of the tribe Trachycarpeae once thrived in what is now subarctic Canada, according to an analysis of fossilized phytoliths — microscopic...

Palm bruchine tunnels in a fossil coconut fruit of the Cerrejón Formation, Colombia. Image credit: Penn State.

60-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals Evidence of Seed Beetle Predation on Coconuts

May 2, 2022 by News Staff

Paleontologists have found insect borings in a fruit fossil of the genus Cocos (coconuts) from the Paleocene Cerrejón Formation of Colombia. Their findings...

Researchers Sequence Genomes of Revived 2,000-Year-Old Date Palms

May 6, 2021 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of scientists from Israel, the United States, France, and the United Arab Emirates has successfully sequenced and analyzed the genomes...

Raphia zamiana: a habitat along the road, with team member Dr. Raoul Niangadouma for scale, in Oyem, Gabon. Image credit: Thomas L.P. Couvreur.

Two New Palm Species Discovered in Africa

Nov 14, 2018 by Natali Anderson

An international team of botanists has discovered and described two new species of the African palm genus Raphia from Cameroon and Gabon. Raphia zamiana:...