Since the time of the dinosaurs, cycad plants may have attracted insects using infrared light. It may be the world's oldest ...

The words “pollination” and “flower” may seem inseparable, but plants began courting insects millions of years before they ...

Cycads use infrared heat to guide beetle pollinators, revealing an ancient plant communication system that predates flowers.

Harvard researchers have discovered that cycads—one of the oldest living lineages of seed plants—heat up their reproductive ...

Cycad cones aren’t always hot. Instead, they follow daily cycles of heating and cooling: Pollen-laden male cones produce a big burst of heat in the late afternoon, and then ovulating female cones warm ...

New study shows that heat may be one of the oldest modes of communication between animals and plants. Cycads—one of the oldest living lineages of seed plants—heat up their reproductive organs to ...

Long before flowers dazzled pollinators with brilliant colors and sweet scents, ancient plants used another feature to signal insects: heat. The findings, based on an analysis of the biology and ...

While many modern plants use colorful flowers to attract pollinators, ancient palm-like plants called cycads lure them by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...