Also important is knowing what type of seed dispersal method your chosen plants use. The first four outlined below are the ...

Winds, flying animals, or water currents are some of the most successful agents of long-distance passive dispersal. Seeds and fruits that have wings, hairs, or inflated processes are carried ...

The findings show that while color vision in animals predates the appearance of colorful fruits by 150 million years and ...

An intriguing discovery 360 million years old. In China, a fossilized seed reveals an unsuspected plant past. What secrets ...

Plants spread their seeds in lots of different ways. This is called seed dispersal. Some seeds are transported by the wind and are shaped to float, glide or spin through the air. NARRATOR ...

There’s millions of invasive snakes on this tiny island, where they were accidentally introduced during World War II. Since ...

The temperatures are dropping, the trees are putting on their annual color show, and Halloween is less than two weeks away.

More information: Sara Beatriz Mendes et al, Evidence of a European seed dispersal crisis, Science (2024). DOI: 10.1126/science.ado1464 ...

Scientists have discovered one of the earliest examples of a winged seed, granting insight into the origin and early evolution of wind dispersal strategies in plants. The study, published today as ...

By far the most common mutualistic primate-plant interaction occurring in communities is seed dispersal (Figure 4). Parent plants rely on frugivorous animals such as primates to move their seeds ...

This panel convened to discuss how focusing our attention on wild animals, particularly capstone and indicator species, is a ...

As compared to neelakurinji, kalkurinji's shrub grows on rocks and thus the name ('kal' means stone or rock in ...