Harvard researchers have discovered that cycads—one of the oldest living lineages of seed plants—heat up their reproductive organs to attract beetle pollinators and the insects possess infrared ...

In lab experiments and field studies, the team tracked the beetles with fluorescent dyes as they moved from cone to cone.

Could the smartest raptors have been the biggest ones? This has become a burning issue for paleontologists, thanks to the recent find of a gigantic troodontid named Fujianipus yingliangi , whose huge ...

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 ...

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 ...

An upcoming University of Guam workshop will highlight the need to preserve one of Guam's most unique native plant species: the fadang. Known scientifically as Cycas micronesica, the fadang joins ...

It's the no-BBC-expenses-spared quiz where kids compete against their parents for a treat from the Bank of Mum and Dad. If the child loses, the adults get to choose a forfeit. It's the game that could ...

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, ...

Around 200 million years ago, long before flowers existed and back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, some of the first plants used heat to attract their pollinators, according to a new study. The ...