image: Example of a 201 million year old serrated hollow scale derived from a glossatan (proboscid-bearing) moth, providing evidence for an early Mesozoic evolution of the Glossata, refuting their ancestral relationship with flowering plants. The scale was isolated from organic residue obtained from the Schandelah-1 core and photographed with a scanning electron microscope (SEM). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 10 January 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by T.J.B. van Eldijk at Utrecht University in Utrecht, Netherlands, and colleagues was titled, "A Triassic-Jurassic window into the evolution of Lepidoptera." view more
Credit: [Credit: Timo van Eldijk]