Learn more about squirting cucumbers (Ecballium elaterium) and how their seeds explode out of them, which could lead to medical advancements.

Rare Discovery Shows Insects Perform Both Pollination and Seed Dispersal. 1mo. ... They are called Balanophora, and for over a century, the mechanism of their seed dispersal has remained a mystery.

Researchers used high-speed video and X-ray scans to reveal how the squirting cucumber uses explosive force to launch seeds ...

Spatial set-up and positioning of the three latitudinal transects. The figure shows the effect of rolling the edge of the latitudinal transects on dispersal, the regions used for data extraction ...

The iconic yet endangered Amami rabbit (Pentalagus furnessi) has been shown to play a key role in seed dispersal for the non-photosynthetic plant Balanophora yuwanensis *1.This discovery, made by ...

As the Earth warms with climate change, plants and animals are being forced to move to friendlier conditions. Animals can swim, scamper and fly, but plants are rooted in place -- they rely on seed ...

Also spotted was a white-faced capuchin monkey, a reputed seed-pooper, and two similar-looking cousins of raccoons—a kinkajou and a northern olingo, both limber, springy, and sharp-clawed.

Join the Forest Preserve District of Kane County for “EcoLab: Science of Seed Dispersal,” on Saturday, Sept. 28. It will be 9:30 to 11 a.m. at Creek Bend Nature Center in St. Charles.

Reporting in this week's PLoS ONE, Dennis Hansen, Christopher Kaiser and Christine Müller from the University of Zurich investigate how the loss of seed dispersal interactions in Mauritius may ...

Most fruits have seeds, which make them capable of developing into new plants. Find out more with Bitesize. For students between the ages of 11 and 14.

Miranda Bernard, Laura Booth, Abraham Kielar, The Effects of Mega-Herbivore Extinctions on Seed Dispersal and Community Structure in An East African Savanna, Consilience, No. 13 (2015), pp. 312-325 ...