
Which came first���the butterfly or the flower? Well, according to evolutionary ideas, the butterfly came first. And a new study makes this ���chicken and egg��� problem worse by supposedly pushing back the origin of butterflies to 236 million years ago���about 100 million years before the first flowering plants supposedly emerged. So what were butterflies consuming all that time?
Well, this new fossil evidence of butterflies comes from a fossil dropping (a coprolite) discovered in Argentina. Un...
Published on June 20, 2025 03:00