300 million-year-old 'modern' beetle from Australia reconstructed
Monday, July 24, 2017 - 08:32
in Paleontology & Archaeology
He's Australian, around half a centimetre long, fairly nondescript, 300 million years old – and he's currently causing astonishment among both entomologists and palaeontologists. The discovery of a beetle from the late Permian period, when even the dinosaurs had not yet appeared on the scene, is throwing a completely new light on the earliest developments in this group of insects.