The sago palm may look like a tiny palm tree with its glossy, stiff fronds, but it is not a palm tree at all. Sago palms are cycads, some of the most ancient plants, dating back to prehistoric times.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The lush, long-living Cycas revoluta plant isn't actually a palm at all, though its foliage looks like palm fronds. Sagos are part ...

The ancient cycad lineage has been around since before the age of the dinosaurs. More recently, cycads also co-existed with large herbivorous mammals, such as the ice age megafauna that only went ...

Cycads are an ancient group of plants that have been around since the age of dinosaurs. They were dominant plants at that time, but most are currently considered endangered. While there are more than ...

Despite the catastrophic effects of continental drift, volcanoes, meteor strikes and ice ages over the last 200 million years, the cycads abide. These very ancient plants are found in our gardens as ...

When a plant changes little except in size over 300 million years, it has already reached its climax of evolution. Surviving ice ages and meteors and volcanic eruptions proves it is naturally able to ...

Botanists have long puzzled over a peculiarity of ancient plants called cycads: they have huge, bright, fleshy seeds displayed in enormous cones. Botanists have long puzzled over a peculiarity of ...

Cycads been around since before the age of the dinosaurs. Cycads living today have large, heavy seeds that suggests they rely on large fruit-eating animals to disperse their seeds. Yet there is little ...