For the first time, researchers have found evidence that underwater ecosystems have pollinators that perform the same task as bees on land. Over several years from 2009 to 2012, researchers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico filmed the spring nocturnal wanderings of crustaceans among beds of turtle seagrass, Thalassia testudinum. Looking through the videos, they spotted more invertebrates visiting male pollen -bearing flowers than those that lacked pollen - just like bees hovering around pollen-producing plants on land. The concept was so new, they invented a new term to describe it: zoobenthophilous pollination. Before that, researchers had never predicted that animals were involved in pollinating marine plants.