Earliest Fossil Evidence of Butterflies and Moths (1 of 8) (IMAGE)

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Earliest Fossil Evidence of Butterflies and Moths (1 of 8)

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Example of a living representative of a primitive moth belonging to the Glossata, moths that bear a proboscid adapted for sucking up fluids, including nectar. Size of the scale bar is 1 cm. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 10 January 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by T.J.B. van Eldijk at Utrecht University in Utrecht, Netherlands, and colleagues was titled, "A Triassic-Jurassic window into the evolution of Lepidoptera."

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[Credit: Hossein Rajaei]

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