Dinosaur-Era Glowing Arthropod Is A Missing Link In Beetle Evolution
515Trapped in amber for ~100 million years, an exceptionally well-preserved, light-producing beetle sheds light on the diversification of bioluminescent beetles in the Cretaceous period and provides the missing fossil link between fireflies' living relatives.
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Li Y-D, Kundrata R, Tihelka E, Liu Z, Huang D, Cai C. 2021 Cretophengodidae, a new Cretaceous beetle family, sheds light on the evolution of bioluminescence. Proc. R. Soc. B 288: 20202730. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.2730
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