300 million-year-old 'modern' beetle from Australia reconstructed
Monday, July 24, 2017 - 12:02
in Paleontology & Archaeology
He's Australian, around half a centimeter 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 is throwing a completely new light on the earliest developments in this group of insects.