Yeah, but 230 million years is/wound be new info & older than thought.
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ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks agoOldest 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.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks 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
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
thank you. long live the lepidopterans!