The match-up then influences whose pollen makes it to the next flower and whose does not. The findings are detailed in a study recently published in The American Naturalist .

However, elements of the flower burial theory didn’t seem to add up. Hunt and his colleagues were working in the Shanidar Cave in 2014 when they found traces of ancient pollen on the surface of ...

H. macrantha flowers have both male and female reproductive organs. To avoid mating with themselves, individual flowers go through a male phase and then a female phase. They rely on hummingbirds ...

Wild honeybees in Southern California are devouring the food supplies of native pollinators — posing a potential threat to the region’s natural ecosystems, a new study has found. These feral ...

During excavations by Hunt and his team in 2016, they noticed a potential alternative explanation for the pollen: ancient mud-lined bee burrows close to Shanidar 4.

This July 9, 2023, image provided by Jessica Damiano shows a zinnia flower in bloom. (Jessica Damoano Via AP) And not just any pollen, but the nearly weightless kind that floats up our noses and ...