Certain beetles are known to pollinate plants. New fossil evidence from Mexican and Dominican fossilized amber indicates that they were doing so 20 million years ago (Miocene epoch), according to Oregon State University scientist George Poinar, Jr. Mexican amber ptilodactyline beetle with attached pollinium of Annulites mexicana (arrow). Scale bar - 0.4 mm. Image credit: George Poinar Jr. The discovery is detailed in a paper published today in...
