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[AsianScientist] Damsel In Distress: Insect Courtship Trapped In 100-Million-Year-Old Amber
Mar. 30, 2017, AsianScientist
  AsianScientist (Mar. 30, 2017) - Ancient damselfly ancestors trapped in amber have shed light on early insect courtship behavior. These findings have been published in Scientific Reports.
  Courtship behaviours, common in modern insects, have left extremely few...
 
[Smithsonian] Flirtatious 100-Million-Year-Old Damselflies Found Frozen in Amber
March 23, 2017, by Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian.com
  From desperate pick-up lines to silly dances, we’re all guilty of engaging in some weird mating rituals as we try to attract that special someone. But what if those behaviors were frozen in time for future scientists to study? That’s what h...
 
[Asian Scientist] Mushroom Munchers Shed Light On How Fungi Evolved
March 23, 2017, Asian Scientist Newsroom
  AsianScientist (Mar. 23, 2017) - Mushrooms and mushroom-eating beetles preserved in a 99-million-year-old piece of amber suggest that gilled mushrooms have been around for much longer than previously thought. These findings have been published in Natur...
 
[National Geographic] Fossil Male Insect Wooed Mates with Sexy Legs
MARCH 22, 2017, By Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic
  For more than a hundred million years, these three male damselflies have been waiting for their damsels.
  Recently
  Mating in modern damselflies and their close kin, the dragonflies, has been
  The ancient insects, named Yijenplaty...
 
[spiegel.de] Liebestanz in Bernstein konserviert
21.03.2017, spiegel.de
  Wer Nachwuchs zeugen will, muss vortanzen. Das gilt nicht zwingend für uns Menschen, aber für das eine oder andere Tier. Männliche Libellen beispielsweise vollführen aufwendige Balzrituale, bei denen sie mit ihren sechs Beinen wackeln. Nur so können sie die Weibche...
 
[Sciences et Avenir] Chez les libellules modernes, les males peuvent avoir des pattes élargies mais pas autant que celles de Yijenplatycnemis
21.03.2017, by Joël Ignasse, Sciences et Avenir
  PARADE. Chez la plupart des espèces sexués, mâles et femelles présentent un dimorphisme, plus ou moins marqué, c'est-à-dire des caractéristiques physiques qui varient suivant le sexe. Ce peut-être la taille, la couleur ou encore la form...
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