In many underwater ecosystems, seagrass meadows act as a food source, a safe haven, and an ecological lynchpin. But until now, very little was known about how these plants reproduce—critical ...

Let's talk about sex. Plant sex. In your garden-variety land plant, reproduction happens when pollen from a male flowering plant ends up in the female part of a plant. To get there, pollen grains can ...

In case you thought we’d figured out life in the oceans even a little bit, a new study published in Nature Communications sets the record straight. For the first time, scientists have found ...

In search of answers on how underwater plants are pollinated, scientists have recently discovered the bees of the sea. For centuries, scientists believed that pollination of seagrasses like dioecious ...