Here, the skeleton of a Hadrosaur duck-billed dinosaur is displayed in the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. Credit: (Wikimedia Commons/Thomas Quine), CC BY Rare tracks from northeastern British ...

All palms, as well as cycads and other palm-like plants, are susceptible to Ganoderma butt rot, a fatal disease with no known ...

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A Queensland wind project has shaved 110 hectares off its footprint and moved some turbine locations as it works its way through the federal environmental assessment process, seeking EPBC approval for ...

Wollongong Botanic Garden is now home to a significant newly established cycad collection, generously donated by Australian collectors. This curated display has been developed over two years and plays ...

The reproductive structures of cycads, an ancient seed plant, heat up with infrared radiation to attract beetle pollinators, a new study suggests. Artwork by Lillian Soucy The bright colors and strong ...

Brace yourself for a hot story about plant sex. Harvard researchers have discovered that cycads — an ancient lineage of seed plants — heat their reproductive organs to attract beetle pollinators, ...

Some of the earliest plants attracted pollinators by producing heat that made these plants glow with infrared light, according to a new set of experiments. The work, published in the journal Science, ...

Ancient plants called cycads say “come hither” in infrared. By Sofia Quaglia If a plant wants to reproduce, there are a number of tricks it can use to lure a pollinator insect. It can display gaudily ...

The words “pollination” and “flower” may seem inseparable, but plants began courting insects millions of years before they evolved flashy petals. Now we know how they may have done it: not with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rhopalotria furfuracea beetles pollinate the cones of cycad plants. Researchers now know that the cones attract pollinators by ...

Since the time of the dinosaurs, cycad plants may have attracted insects using infrared light. It may be the world's oldest form of pollination. Rhopalotria furfuracea beetles pollinate the cones of ...