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PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oldest known butterfly fossils are 56 million years old. Moths are much older. The picture is of butterflies but the fossils are going to be moths.

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  • PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    thank you. long live the lepidopterans!

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  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, but 230 million years is/wound be new info & older than thought.

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    • ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well the molecular clocks put the divergence back to about 100 Ma to 66 Ma years ago.

      From Wikipedia:

      Molecular clock estimates suggest that butterflies originated sometime in the Late Cretaceous, but only significantly diversified during the Cenozoic,[10][1] with one study suggesting a North American origin for the group.[1

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