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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.

Kapok trees are challenging the notion that African and South American rainforests are similar.

Credit: Zina Deretsky, National Science Foundation

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