Some Plants Are Still Making Fleshy Fruit to Attract Extinct Megafauna
The Common Naturalist,
Plants generally lack the ability to move to new locations and that presents some challenges when it comes to reproduction. Not…
Plants generally lack the ability to move to new locations and that presents some challenges when it comes to reproduction. Not…
Diego Muñoz-Concha y Andrea…
The pumpkin shouldn’t exist. Nor should squashes, gourds, and courgettes. These common dinner-table vegetables are all part of…
Squashes survived the demise of large megabeasts by forming a partnership with a new seed disperser: humans.
Dinosaurs dining on a chocolate kiss…did they ever encounter a cocoa bean? – image (c) Emily Willoughby, used with permission.