Beetles changed their diet during the Cretaceous period

ScienceDaily
Mar 18, 2020, 2:36 pm176 pts
Like a snapshot, amber preserves bygone worlds. Paleontologists have now described four new beetle species in fossilized tree resin from Myanmar, which belong to the Kateretidae family. As well as the about 99 million years old insects, the amber also includes pollen. It seems that the beetles helped the…

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