New research by a team of scientists from the University of Exeter and elsewhere offers an illuminating insight into iridescent colors found on the earliest known lepidopterans, which lived on our planet 200 million years ago (Mesozoic era). Ecological restoration of moths in the Cretaceous Burmese amber forest. Image credit: Dinghua Yang. Remarkable scales of lepidopterans (moths and butterflies) exhibit complex structures, many of which produce...
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