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

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

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Schandelah drilling operation retrieving a 338 meter long core spanning approximately 25 million years of Earth history (Early Jurassic). Schandelah is located 75 km East of the city of Hannover in northern Germany. 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: Bas van de Schootbrugge]

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