Dinosaur-Era Insects Frozen in Time During Oldest Pollination
When you buy through link on our site , we may earn an affiliate commission . Here ’s how it work . With monumental dinosaurs towering above , tiny female worm called thripid had just dusted themselves with hundred of pollen grains from a gingko tree more than 100 million years ago when they perished , only to be preserve in tree resin call amber . The discovery , detailed this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , is the oldest known record ofinsect pollination ....