But this discovery might mean that the origin of pollination between animals and plants is much older than we imagined.
The origin was thought to be those of animals with flowering plants, which arrived on earth 150 million years ago. Other publications then showed that pollination also happened in ferns and mosses, which arrived around 450 million years ago, when plants migrated from the oceans to colonize the terrestrial environment, with this discovery , between crustacean and red algae might still take you back in time, algae appeared 800 million years ago but the arrival of animals is some 650 million years ago. Pollination might therefore date from 650 million years ago.
For these scientists, this remains a hypothesis for the moment. They will now investigate this “pollination“on other families of red algae, if it were to be more widespread, it would mean that it is no longer anecdotal.
