Sea creatures pollinate marine plants and algae, surprising scientists - National Geographic

Once thought to be a land-only phenomenon, pollination may have existed in the ocean millions of years before terrestrial plants appeared.

About a decade ago, Vivianne Solis-Weiss, a marine biologist at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México who studies marine worms, talked to a colleague studying seagrasses, flowering plants that grow… [+8041 chars]

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