Photo / 123RFMove over kererū: a new Kiwi study has suggested another, much heftier, animal likely played a big part in helping plants to spread - dinosaurs. These dinosaurs may have spread seeds on average as far as 4-5km and in rare cases more than 30km. It also added to previous speculation on the role that dinosaurs may have played in spreading plants. Still, understanding exactly what role dinosaurs played in helping plants to spread may be difficult or impossible to establish from the fossil record. Although dinosaurs certainly moved seeds, scientists don't know anything about the germination of those seeds.

Source: New Zealand Herald January 05, 2021 22:52 UTC