(CNN) 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.
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Scientists have discovered where butterflies originated and which plants the first butterflies relied on for food. To reach these conclusions, researchers created the world s largest butterfly tree of life, which they used as a guide to trace trace the evolution of butterflies through time in a four-dimensional puzzle that led back to North and Central America.