«Poor preservation of lacewing fossils had always stymied attempts to conduct a detailed morphological and ecological examination of the kalligrammatid,» says
paleobotanist David Dilcher, a co-author on the study that identifies the insects.
But last May,
paleobotanists at the Florida Museum of Natural History and at Jilin University in Changchun, China, announced fossil remains of «probably the most complete, oldest flowering plant in the world,» says
David Dilcher, a scientist who analyzed the 125 - million - year - old fossils.