Plants

Slow-growing, toxic and everywhere for 150 million years — the plant that fed a world of herbivores.

The same leaf shape appears in Jurassic rock and in city parks today. Almost nothing about it changed.

In the rock layer above the extinction boundary, pollen almost vanishes and fern spores explode.

Flowering plants appear late, spread fast, and rewrite every food web they touch.

Araucaria, monkey puzzle and the southern forests that survived what the giants could not.