Which Came First - Flowers or Bees?
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[MUSIC] Here’s a riddle: Roses are red, violets are blue, flowers need bees, but bees need flowers too. These two branches on the tree of life have evolved to rely on each other so tightly, you can’t have one without the other. So which came first, bees or flowers? [MUSIC] Imagine a world without flowers. It’s hard to do, but 140 million years ago, this landscape would have looked completely different. [MUSIC] We’d see pterosaurs flying through the sky tiny rat-like mammals on the ground, and of course, dinosaurs. Plants first colonized land about 450 million years ago, but for their first 300 million years there wasn’t a single flower to be found. Plants were limited to things like ferns, conifers, ginkgos, cycads. At the same time, there...
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[MUSIC] Here’s a riddle: Roses are red, violets are blue, flowers need bees, but bees need flowers too. These two branches on the tree of life have evolved to rely on each other so tightly, you can’t have one without the other. So which came first, bees or flowers? [MUSIC] Imagine a world without flowers. It’s hard to do, but 140 million years ago, this landscape would have looked completely different. [MUSIC] We’d see pterosaurs flying through the sky tiny rat-like mammals on the ground, and of course, dinosaurs. Plants first colonized land about 450 million years ago, but for their first 300 million years there wasn’t a single flower to be found. Plants were limited to things like ferns, conifers, ginkgos, cycads. At the same time, there...
