Before flowers, odd bugs pollinated plants
Thursday, November 5, 2009 - 15:57
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Insects called scorpionflies may have slurped up plants' nectar-like fluids through long, tube-like snouts before the evolution of flowering plants and the insects that pollinate them.
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