Ancient Butterflies and Moths: The Oldest Physical Evidence Yet
A groundbreaking discovery has revealed the oldest physical evidence of butterflies and moths, dating back 236 million years to the Triassic period. Researchers uncovered microscopic scales from lepidopterans in fossilized dung samples, filling a 40-million-year gap in the evolutionary record of these insects. The Discovery in Argentina Paleontologists from Argentina and the UK analyzed dung ...
