![]() ![]() Once there were fruit, plants could enlist the help of animals in a kind of trade: sweetness for a lift to a mate. Once there were flowers, there were fruit - that transcendent alchemy of sunlight into sugar. No algorithm, no swipe - just chance.īut then, in the Cretaceous period, flowers appeared and carpeted the world with astonishing rapidity - because, in some poetic sense, they invented love. There were plants, but their reproduction was a tenuous game of chance - they released their pollen into the wind, into the water, against the staggering improbability that it might reach another member of their species. ![]() Two hundred million years ago, long before we walked the Earth, it was a world of cold-blooded creatures and dull color - a kind of terrestrial sea of brown and green. THE ANIMATED UNIVERSE IN VERSE: CHAPTER ONE This is the first of nine installments in the animated interlude season of The Universe in Verse in collaboration with On Being, celebrating the wonder of reality through stories of science winged with poetry. ![]()
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