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Bedtime Science: Why do seeds travel?

To have a better chance at life this seed needs to get away from its parent. That’s why nature has come up with all sorts of different ways for seeds to travel.
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5 Jun 2017

Bedtime Science: How do seeds travel?

If animals run out of food they can can move to where there’s more. Plants can’t get up and move to find a better place to grow. But they have found ways to send their “children” to new places where they might have a better chance of surviving.
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17 Feb 2017

What’s the point of prickles?

What good are prickles anyway? A prickle is attached to a seed which is catching a ride somewhere. The sharp (ouch) pointy bit attaches it to something, usually an animal.
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30 Jan 2017

Helicopter trees

Did you know that helicopters grew on trees long before people invented them?
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4 Jan 2017Comments: 1
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