The Spores of These Ancient Plants Literally Hop Along on Four Little Legs
These are horsetails. They are hundred-and-fifty-million-year-old plants and the last of their kind. Instead of seeds, they give off spores. And instead of flying or swimming, these spores use humidity to walk, or even hop, on four little legs. Okay, this is incredible. Horsetails, or equisetum, are one of those “living fossil” plants that have…
