Inferring insect pollination from compression fossils and amber inclusions is difficult because
of a lack of consensus on defining an insect pollinator and the challenge of recognizing this …

The Mesozoic is a key era for the rise of the modern insect fauna. Among the most important
evolutionary events in Mesozoic insects are the radiation of holometabolous insects, the …

The order Coleoptera (beetles) is arguably the most speciose group of animals, but the
evolutionary history of beetles, including the impacts of plant feeding (herbivory) on beetle …

A list of all known taxa described or recorded from Burmese amber from the published
literature up to the end of 2018 is given, along with a comprehensive bibliography. The …

The determinants of biodiversity patterns can be understood using macroevolutionary
analyses. The integration of fossils into phylogenies offers a deeper understanding of …

Burmese amber represents the world's most diverse biota in the Mesozoic. Previous studies
have focused on the biodiversity of its inclusions, as well as pholadid borings. Here we …

Insect pollination of flowering plants (angiosperms) is responsible for the majority of the
world's flowering plant diversity and is key to the Cretaceous radiation of angiosperms …

The present-day ubiquity of angiosperm-insect pollination has led to the hypothesis that
these two groups coevolved early in their evolutionary history. However, recent fossil …

The mouthparts of insects are a phenomenal example of a multi-element, modular, feeding
apparatus that repeatedly has been modified structurally to perform every feeding function …

Triassic fossils are rare but crucial for understanding the early evolution of large insect
clades including beetles (Coleoptera). Their phylogenetic assignment is problematic …