Diverse firefly species lit up the night during the late Mesozoic period, scientists have confirmed.
Scientists have identified a previously unknown ancient firefly species — dubbed Flammarionella hehaikuni — from a 99 million-year-old fossil within Burmese amber. When dinosaurs roamed Earth, their surroundings looked very different than the world of today. But there were also some similarities. And now scientists have confirmed a new one: Diverse firefly species lit up the night during the late Mesozoic.
There are 10 past firefly species that are only known from fossils, said Dr. Oliver Keller, a research museum collection specialist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor who has studied the systematics and taxonomy of fireflies. However, no existing Luciolinae species sports the peculiar antennae that the fossil had, which the authors suspect would also differ depending on the sex of the insect, according to the study. The newly identified fossil is that of a female.
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