Cycads are cone-bearing plants that have male and female cones on separate plants. Male plants have pollen producing cones. Female plants receive pollen and produce seeds. Like many plants cycads rely on insects to collect pollen and transfer it to another plant. Scientists at the Montgomery Botanical Center in Florida and other research institutions have […]
Dinosaur dined on cycad seeds, according to articles in Earth Archives 20 February 2017 and Scientific Reports doi:10.1038/srep42778, published online 16 February 2017. A team of scientists from Argentina, Spain and Portugal have studied the fossil of a dinosaur found in the Los Molles Formation, in Argentina, dated as middle Jurassic (Approx. 170 million years […]