Exquisite fossils show butterflies appeared before there were flowers to pollinate - Washington Post

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Exquisite fossils show butterflies appeared before there were flowers to pollinate
Washington Post
The two paleontologists dissolving rock cores more than 200 million years old were looking for vestiges of freshwater algae. Instead, tiny fragments of insect scales caught their eye — remnants that a report published Wednesday identifies as the ...
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