Flowering plants are well known for their special relationship to the insects and other animals that serve as their pollinators. But, before the rise of angiosperms, another group of unusual evergreen gymnosperms, known as cycads, may have been the first insect-pollinated plants. Now, researchers have uncovered the earliest definitive fossil evidence of that intimate relationship between cycads and insects.
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@Patrick was a head of the game here. Relevant article was already mentioned by him here. Notice that this pollinator is not a bee @Michael_Callen.
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