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News Release 07-068
The Kapok Connection: Study Explains Rainforest Similarities
Research explains how ocean currents carried seeds from South America to Africa
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![Kapok tree seeds traveled across the ocean from South America to Africa after continents split.](/news/mmg/media/images/kapok_f.jpg)
Kapok trees are challenging the notion that African and South American rainforests are similar.
Credit: Zina Deretsky, National Science Foundation
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