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Feeding traces on #fossil leaves help #researchers identify factors leading to enormous #herbivore diversity https://phys.org/news/2023-08-fossil-factors-enormous-herbivore-diversity.html
#FossilLeaves reveal drivers of herbivore functional diversity during the #Cenozoic https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2300514120
"the diversity of #herbivorous #insects evolved over the last 60 million years primarily through the shared use of food #plants. The results are based on the analysis of feeding traces left by #arthropods on more than 45,000 fossil leaves."