Flowering plants are well known for their special relationship to the insects and other animals that serve as their pollinators. But, before the rise of angiosperms, another group of unusual evergreen gymnosperms, known as cycads, may have been the first insect-pollinated plants. Now, researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology on August 16 have uncovered […]
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99-million-year-old beetle trapped in amber served as pollinator to evergreen cycads
August 19th, 2018 
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No Comments »WFS News: Ponomarenkia belmonthensis,300 MYO beetle
July 25th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev He’s Australian, around half a centimetre long, fairly nondescript, 300 million years old, and he’s currently causing astonishment among both entomologists and palaeontologists. The discovery of a beetle from the late Permian period, when even the dinosaurs had not yet appeared on the scene, is throwing a completely […]
WFS News: Snake eats lizard eats beetle, Fossil food chain examined
September 8th, 2016 Riffin In cooperation with CONICET in Argentina, Senckenberg scientists examined a spectacular discovery from the UNESCO World Heritage site Messel Pit: A fossil snake in whose stomach a lizard can be seen, which in turn had consumed a beetle. The discovery of the approximately 48-million-year-old tripartite fossil food chain is unique for Messel; worldwide, only one […]
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