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 ...

Before plants wooed insects with colorful flowers and fragrances, they turned up the heat. A new study shows how cycads, ancient plants often mistaken for palms or ferns, use thermal infrared energy ...

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, ...