Flowering plants, which only date back 125 million years, are the most successful group of land plants. They evolved from seed plants and diversified into monocots and dicots. Flowers allow for symbiotic partnerships with pollinating insects, aiding genetic diversity and resistance to disease. By the end of the Cretaceous period, half of today’s major flower […]
Eyes appeared in the Cambrian period and are found in various organisms, implying a common ancestor. All animals with eyes use the same protein, opsin. The evolution of the eye can be traced incrementally from simple light-sensitive cells. The eye is one of the oldest evolutionary developments and emerged before the evolution of many modern […]
