Modern Beetles Predate Dinosaurs - Yahoo! News
New research hints that modern-day versions of the insects are far older than any tyrannosaur that trod the Earth.
Today’s plethora of beetle species were thought to have blossomed 140 million years ago, during the rise of flowering plants. But the new study of beetle DNA and fossils, published in the Dec. 21 issue of the journal Science, pushes their appearance back to 300 million years ago.
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