Fluttery Jurassic Insects Predate Butterflies By 50 Million Years
Researchers work with Jurassic fossils from China have discovered insects with remarkably butterfly - corresponding lineament , even though the species vanish some 40 to 50 million year before the show of the earliest “ true ” butterflies . Called kalligrammatid lacewing fly , these butterfly tone - alikes are only distantly come to to today ’s fluttery crowned head and viceroys – making lacewing fly and butterflies a striking example of convergent development , concord to finding put out inProceedings of the Royal Society Blast week ....