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Ancient Beetles Pollinated Orchids 20 Million Year
Topic Started: Aug 23 2016, 02:53 PM (327 Views)
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"Certain beetles are known to pollinate plants. New fossil evidence from Mexican and Dominican fossilized amber indicates that they were doing so 20 million years ago (Miocene epoch), according to Oregon State University scientist George Poinar, Jr."


http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/ancient-beetles-pollinated-orchids-04122.html

Always cool to see new pieces of amber pop up but it's especially cool for them to shed some light on insect and pollination diversity.
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