Archive for July 20th, 2012

Insect damage on Eocene fossil plants may predict global warming consequences

Paleontologists and biologists reported an analysis of insect damage to Eocene fossil plantsthat has implications for what may happen as a result of present day global warming in the open access peer reviewed journal Public Library of Science on July 18, 2012. Samples of insect-feeding damage on the two middle Eocene plant groups from the Messeland Eckfeld sites in Germany were examined from specimens from […]