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Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP30 Nov 2019 3:04 p.m. PST

… Insect Pollination to a Time When Pterodactyls Still Roamed the Skies.

"A new study co-led by researchers in the U.S. and China has pushed back the first-known physical evidence of insect flower pollination to 99 million years ago, during the mid-Cretaceous period.

The revelation is based upon a tumbling flower beetle with pollen on its legs discovered preserved in amber deep inside a mine in northern Myanmar. The fossil comes from the same amber deposit as the first ammonite discovered in amber, which was reported by the same research group earlier this year…"
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