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Exquisite fossils show butterflies appeared before there were flowers to pollinate By Ben Guarino, Washington Post, January 10, 2018 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/01/10/exquisite-fossils-show-butterflies-appeared-before-there-were-flowers-to-pollinate/ Finding the Oldest Fossils of Butterflies Using a Human Nose Hair By Nicholas St. Fleurjan, New York Times, January 10, 2018 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/10/science/fossils-butterflies-moths.html 'Butterfly Tongues' Are More Ancient Than Flowers, Fossil Study Finds By Rebbeca Hersher, All Things Considered, January 10, 2018 https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/10/576763256/butterfly-tongues-are-more-ancient-than-flowers-fossil-study-finds In 'pond scum,' scientists find answers to one evolution's which-came- first cases, Boston College, January 10, 2018, https://phys.org/news/2018-01-pond-scum-scientists-evolution-which-came-first.html https://www.livescience.com/61394-oldest-butterfly-on-record.html The paper is: Timo J. B. van Eldijk, Torsten Wappler, Paul K. Strother, Carolien M. H. van der Weijst, Hossein Rajaei, Henk Visscher, and Bas van de Schootbrugge, 2018, A Triassic-Jurassic window into the evolution of Lepidoptera. Science Advances 10 Jan 2018: Vol. 4, no. 1, e1701568 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1701568 http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/1/e1701568 Yours, Paul H.
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