Plant-eating insects developed differently than expected

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Plant-eating insects developed differently than expected

A large number of insects feed on plants. These species and their nutritional patterns developed very early in evolution – much earlier than previously assumed, as now evidenced by food traces on 165 million-year-old fossil leaves. Accordingly, it was not only the development of flowering plants in the early Cretaceous period that led to evolution [...] The article Plant-eating insects developed differently than thought first appeared on wissens…