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 ...

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 ...

Cycads are palm-tree like plants that dominated the Earth’s landscape some 280 million years ago when the continents were smashed up into Pangea. Back then, the planet was going through global warming ...

The only known specimens of Encephalartos woodii (E. woodii), a species of cycad, are all clones of the same male plant found over 100 years ago in a South African forest. Now a team of researchers is ...

DANGER TO DOGS: The seeds produced in the dome-shaped cone of female sago palms (Cycas revoluta) are ripening now and are highly toxic to dogs. Apparently, something about the taste of the fleshy red ...

Cycads are an ancient group of plants that have been around since the age of dinosaurs. They were dominant plants at that time, but most are currently considered endangered. While there are more than ...

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 ...