Evolution: Fossils reveal butterflies' history

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 million years ago.

Dispersal from the Qinghai-Tibet plateau by a high-altitude butterfly is associated with rapid expansion and reorganization of its genome

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A Powder snow Butterfly

New Research Reveals New Origins for Butterflies, Blog, Nature

A Powder snow Butterfly

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

Smithsonian Insider – Remarkable butterfly look-alike lived 50 million years before butterflies appeared

The Abrupt Origin of Butterflies

Ancient Butterfly Fossils Reveal The Insects Evolved Tongues 200 Million Years Ago

Oldest butterfly fossils ever discovered – DW – 01/11/2018

A Powder snow Butterfly

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The Origin of Butterflies: A 100 Million-Year-Old Mystery Unraveled #fossil #paleontology #insect #biology #evolution #butterfly - Earth Science Club of Northern Illinois - ESCONI

PDF) A global phylogeny of butterflies reveals their evolutionary history, ancestral hosts and biogeographic origins

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