US EditionBumble Bees Pollinated Linden Flowers 24 Million Years Ago, Fossil Evidence Shows
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An international research team, led by the Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research of the University of Vienna, has made an extraordinary discovery: linden flowers and fossilized bumblebees were found in the same place. They were found in sediments that are more than 24 million years old and were located in the Enspel Fossil-Lagerstätte (Renania-Palatinate, Germany), along with excellently preserved pollen grains, which show the interacti…
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"It is the first time a fossil flower and its pollinating bees have been described from the same sediments and are directly connected to each other by pollen." They have been more than 24 million years old.
Bumble bees pollinated linden flowers 24 million years ago, fossil evidence shows
An international research team led by the Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research at the University of Vienna has made an extraordinary discovery: fossilized lime blossoms and fossilized bumble bees were found in 24-million-year-old sediments at the Enspel Fossil-Lagerstätte (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)—along with evidence of their interaction in the form of preserved pollen grains. These findings show that bumble bees were already amo…
Oligocene-Period Fossils Provide Evidence of Pollination Interaction between Flowers and Bumblebees
Paleontologists have screened 24-million-year-old fossil flowers and bees from the Late Oligocene of Enspel, Germany, and identified a new species of linden, Tilia magnasepala, as well as two new bumblebee species, Bombus (Kronobombus) messegus and Bombus (Timebombus) palaeocrater. The post Oligocene-Period Fossils Provide Evidence of Pollination Interaction between Flowers and Bumblebees appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News.
Paleontologists have found in Germany linden flowers and fossilized bumblebees in sediments of 24 million years, along with evidence of their interaction in the form of preserved pollen grains.
Bumble Bees Pollinated Linden Flowers Already 24 Million Years Ago
An international research team led by the Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research at the University of Vienna has made an extraordinary discovery: fossilised lime blossoms and fossilised bumble bees were found in 24-million-year-old sediments at the Enspel Fossil-Lagerstätte (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) – along with evidence of their interaction in the form of preserved pollen grains.
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