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• 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

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