@WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A team of paleontologists affiliated with several institutions in Argentina, working with a colleague from the U.K., has discovered evidence of scales from lepidopterans in dung samples recovered from a dig site in Talampaya National Park, Argentina. In their paper published in the Journal of South American Earth Sciences, the […]
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WFS News: Oldest physical evidence of butterflies or moths discovered in 236-million-year-old poop
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No Comments »WFS News: Fossil evidence reveals butterflies and moths lived 50m years earlier than thought
January 11th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The earliest known fossil evidence of butterflies and moths has been found in Germany, showing they lived at least 50m years earlier than previously believed and challenging one of the most popular beliefs about their evolution. Scales from the wings of at least seven species were found in […]
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