After more than a century of speculation by biologists, a lab test has shown that mosses have their own animal-courier system for sperm that’s similar to pollination, researchers say.
MOSSES’ BEST FRIEND. In a process similar to pollination among flowering plants, a tiny insect called a springtail can carry moss sperm from male to female tufts of moss.
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