Fossil palm beetles 'hind-cast' 50-million-year-old winters
Tuesday, May 13, 2014 - 18:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Fifty-million-year-old fossil beetles that fed only on palm seeds are giving biologists new information about ancient climates. These fossil beetles indicate that during a period of global warming in the geological past, there were mild, frost-free winters extended even in the uplands of ancient western North America.