Butterfly beginnings miragenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from miragenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Biologists including Michael Landis in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis worked with researchers from dozens of countries to reconstruct the origin and global spread of butterflies. The resulting butterfly tree of life reveals that they got their start in North America.
The world’s largest butterfly tree of life is helping researchers determine where the winged insects originated when they first appeared on Earth about 100 million years ago.
Rare fossils reveal the butterfly tree of life over the past 100 million years wlky.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wlky.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.