{"id":119184,"date":"2024-10-28T04:06:48","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T21:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=119184"},"modified":"2024-10-28T04:06:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T21:06:48","slug":"this-small-ground-beetle-is-rekindling-debate-on-darwins-theory-of-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=119184","title":{"rendered":"This small ground beetle is rekindling debate on Darwin\u2019s theory of evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">When a mass extinction event 66 million years ago wiped out three-quarters of the world\u2019s plants and animals \u2013 including the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb e1llv60l0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/society\/article\/3283555\/dinosaur-bones-discovered-hong-kong-first-time?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">dinosaurs<\/span><\/a> \u2013 among the survivors was a tiny, black beetle.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event triggered one of the most profound restructurings of Earth\u2019s natural environment, and those species that survived had to change and evolve as they adapted to the new world order, following Charles Darwin\u2019s theory of evolution.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But that tiny beetle could be turning Darwin\u2019s theory on its head. According to two recent studies conducted by several Chinese researchers and their international collaborators, this common insect has remained unchanged for at least 100 million years.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In fact, it is in a state the researchers call \u201cevolutionary stasis\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The studies, published in Palaeoentomology and The Innovation in April and May respectively, were led by Cai Chenyang, a researcher at the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in southern China\u2019s Jiangsu province.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\"><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb e1llv60l0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Scientists<\/span><\/a> found a preserved Cretaceous species of <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component-2\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Loricera<\/em>, a genus of ground beetles, in three amber fossils from the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar dated to around 100 million years ago.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3283794\/small-ground-beetle-rekindling-debate-darwins-theory-evolution\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a mass extinction event 66 million years ago wiped out three-quarters of the world\u2019s plants and animals \u2013 including the dinosaurs \u2013 among the survivors was a tiny, black &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=119184\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8628],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}