If you brush against the wings of a butterfly, you will likely come away with a fine sprinkling of powder. This lepidopteran dust is made up of tiny microscopic scales, hundreds of thousands of which paper a butterfly’s wings like shingles on a wafer-thin roof. The structure and arrangement of […]
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Fossilized wing gives clues about Labrador’s biodiversity during the Cretaceous
A fossilised insect wing found in an deserted mine in Labrador has led palaeontologists from McGill University and the University of Gda?sk to establish a new furry cicada species that lived about 100 million many years back. Maculaferrum blaisi, described in a study released in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, is the […]