Date: October 4, 2017
Source: University of Kansas
There are precious few species
today in the biodiversity hotspot of Madagascar that scientists can trace
directly back to when all of Earth's continents were joined together as part of
the primeval supercontinent Pangea.
But a new study in the
journal Scientific Reports suggests
the Malagasy striped whirligig beetle Heterogyrus
milloti is an ultra-rare survivor among contemporary species on
Madagascar, boasting a genetic pedigree stretching back at least 206 million
years to the late Triassic period.
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