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BOSTON — Plants appear to live the ultimate sedentary lifestyle, but they’ve got mad aeronautical skills when it comes to their progeny. Two new studies — one investigating the catapult action of ...

Look at the underside of a fern leaf. Those rows of orange clusters aren’t tiny insects; they’re spores waiting to be catapulted away. Once a spore lands, it grows into a tiny plant, from which fern ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cinnamon fern is common all over eastern North America. You'll find it in shady swamps and wetlands along creeks and streams. Well ...

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Those rows of orange cluster under a fern leaf are spores waiting to be catapulted away. Look at the underside of a fern leaf. Those rows of orange clusters aren’t tiny insects; they’re spores waiting ...

This is the sporangium of Polypodium aureum during sporangium opening. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the March 16, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by X. Noblin ...