Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The words “pollination” and “flower” may seem inseparable, but plants began courting insects millions of years before they evolved ...

Rhopalotria furfuracea beetles pollinate the cones of cycad plants. Researchers now know that the cones attract pollinators by heating themselves up, which emits infrared light that the insects have ...

Aug. 16 (UPI) --A newly analyzed amber fossil has offered the earliest evidence of a plant-pollinator relationship between cycads and insects. Pollinators bring to mind flowering plants. Modern ...

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 96, No. 9 (Sep., 2009), pp. 1722-1730 (9 pages) There has been considerable uncertainty about the importance of wind vs. insects in cycad pollination, but recent ...

Cycads are ancient palm-like plants that appeared 275m years ago, long before flowering plants evolved ...

University of Guam researchers continue to expand knowledge of a unique group of plants called cycads. The world's contemporary cycad plants depend on small insects for pollination services. The Guam ...

Think about strong perfume and a threesome, and what do you get? No, try again. The correct answer is — reproduction by an ancient type of plants called cycads. Sure, lots of plants use a third party ...

University of Utah scientists discovered a strange method of reproduction in primitive plants named cycads: The plants heat up and emit a toxic odor to drive pollen-covered insects out of male cycad ...

Scientists discovered a strange reproductive method in primitive cycad plants: The plants heat up and emit a toxic odor to drive pollen-covered insects out of male cycad cones, and then use a milder ...

It's a relationship characterised by rejection, deceit and too much perfume. An affair played out not on the pages of a gossip magazine, but among Australian insects and plants. Researchers have ...

Flowering plants are well known for their special relationship to the insects and other animals that serve as their pollinators. But, before the rise of angiosperms, another group of unusual evergreen ...

At first glance, a cycad plant - a "sago palm"- could pass for a true palm, with its single cylindrical trunk topped by a cluster of fronds. Palms and cycads are sold side by side in specialized ...