Two new bee species are mysterious pieces in the Panama puzzle

Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 15:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Scientists have discovered two new, closely related bee species: one from Coiba Island in Panama and another from northern Colombia. Both descended from of a group of stingless bees that originated in the Amazon and moved into Central America, the ancestors of Mayan honeybees.

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