Science Quickly

We Owe Our Pumpkins to Pooping Megafauna

Oct 31, 2019 · 3 min
0:00-3:51

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The pumpkin’s ancestor was an incredibly bitter, tennis-ball-sized squash—but it was apparently a common snack for mastodons. Christopher Intagliata reports.

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