New Fossils Show Extraordinary Expansion of Insects During the Triassic (5 of 5) (IMAGE)

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New Fossils Show Extraordinary Expansion of Insects During the Triassic (5 of 5)

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Triassic insect fossils from NW China. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Sep. 5th 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by D. Zheng at Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment in Nanjing, China, and colleagues was titled, "Middle-Late Triassic insect radiation revealed by diverse fossils and isotopic ages from China."

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[Credit: Daran Zheng]

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