6 results for “fruit”

1. Plants & Fungi

   Flowers and Pollination

   fruit. A fruit is another bargain, this time with a different animal: eat the sweet flesh

   Article · 4 min read

   

2. Animals

   Insects

   fruit, gall. Flight, which they invented about 400 million years ago, lets them find food and mates

   Article · 3 min read

   

3. Plants & Fungi

   Fungi

   fruit, pushed up briefly to release spores, like an apple on a tree. The organism itself

   Article · 4 min read

   

4. Plants & Fungi

   Trees and Forests

   fruit, nuts, rubber, medicines and shade. And they are the simplest, oldest and still among the most

   Article · 4 min read

   

5. Plants & Fungi

   Seeds

   fruit so that birds and mammals will eat them and drop them far away, with manure

   Article · 4 min read

   

6. The Human Body

   Sleep and Dreams

   fruit flies to whales. Scientists once thought sleep was just the brain switching off. In fact

   Article · 3 min read