Scientoon on “99-Million-Year-Old Flower Beetle with Pollen Grains on Its Legs Found Encased in Amber”

Scientoon on “99-Million-Year-Old Flower Beetle with Pollen Grains on Its Legs Found Encased in Amber”

Insect pollination is a key contributor to the rise of flowering plants. Both insects & flowering plants were common during the mid-Cretaceous epoch, but physical evidence for Cretaceous insect pollination of flowering plants was until now absent. An international team of palaeontologists from the United States and China has now found an ancient beetle with pollen grains still stuck to its legs trapped in a 99-million-year-old piece of Burmese amber.

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Reference: Tong Bao, Bo Wang, Jianguo Li, David Dilcher. Pollination of Cretaceous flowers. PNAS, 2019