Fossil palm beetles 'hindcast' 50-million-year-old winters
Burnaby, Canada (SPX) May 16, 2014 - Fifty-million-year-old fossil beetles that fed only on palm seeds are giving Simon Fraser University biologists Bruce Archibald and Rolf Mathewes new information about ancient climates. According to their research, published online this week in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, these fossil beetles indicate that during a period of global warming in the geological past, t ... more

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