Scientists Were Studying Butterfly Wings—and Found a 120 Million-Year-Old Evolutionary Pattern

Now a new study published in the journal PLOS Biology examines this question further by investigating the genomes of species ...
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Rare fossils reveal the butterfly ‘tree of life’ over the past 100 million years

(CNN) — The world’s largest butterfly tree of life is helping researchers determine where the winged insects originated when they first appeared on Earth about 100 million years ago. During the age of ...
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Butterflies that look alike, see alike: Research links rainforest light to butterfly vision evolution

Butterflies that independently evolved the same wing patterns have also evolved similar eyes and brains which are fine-tuned for vision in the shifting light of tropical rainforests, according to new ...
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Where Did Butterflies Come From? This Scientist Is On the Case

Delias sambawana, a butterfly that hails from Indonesia, at the Florida Museum of Natural History. Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace and phylogeny by Hillis, Zwickl, and Gutell When Akito Kawahara ...