Paleontologists in the US have made a major breakthrough as they have found 300-million-year-old fossils belonging to reptiles and insects, which may reveal more about a mysterious period on Earth. A related study was published in Nature Communications, with a publication by interestingengineering.com writing that the excavation took place in Lantern North and concerns the Pennsylvanian period, known as the Upper Carboniferous or Late Carboniferous. The findings belong to more than 130 species of early reptiles, amphibians, arachnids and insects, and also include various plant fossils. According to the scientists, it provides evidence of some of the earliest known insect behaviors, including oviposition (egg-laying) and plant bleeding, which pushes back the fossil record for these activities by millions of years. “This area gives us an unprecedented look at a terrestrial ecosystem at a critical time for the evolution of life on Earth. We see evidence of complex plant-insect interactions and some of the first appearances of important groups of animals that then came to dominate.” […]
Source: News Beast
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