Narrator: A flower isn’t just a pretty thing you give to someone special. It’s actually a complicated part of a plant. It produces seeds through a process called pollination. The flower’s ...

But the other cool thing is that there is also a way to salvage fertilisation if the first father is a dud." During the process of pollination, hundreds of pollen grains carry sperm as they fix on a ...

That's what happened to a species of flowering plant encased in amber originally collected in Myanmar (Burma) in 2001, a new study says. (See "Oldest Fossil of Mating Insects Found; Sex Positions ...

According to the researchers, the reproduction process seen in the 100-million-year old fossil is the same process used by modern flowering plants, or angiosperms.

Scientists have discovered a sexual reproduction process in microalgae that helps them to better understand algae and plant evolution. Their discovery could lead to new industrial applications for ...

A cluster of 18 flowers from the Crestaceous Period, contained within a well preserved fossil and discovered in an amber mine in Myanmar, reveal the oldest known evidence of sexual reproduction in a ...