{"id":20219,"date":"2020-02-27T18:28:56","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T17:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/igcat.org\/?p=20219"},"modified":"2021-01-05T16:36:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T15:36:43","slug":"oldest-evidence-of-modern-bees-found-in-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/igcat.org\/fr\/oldest-evidence-of-modern-bees-found-in-argentina\/","title":{"rendered":"Oldest evidence of modern bees found in Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The 100-million-year-old burrows confirm that bees diversified alongside early flowering plants.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A new fossil find has set paleontologists abuzz: Ancient nests confirm that bees were alive and well in Patagonia 100 million years ago, marking the oldest fossil evidence for modern bees.<\/p>\n<p>The nests,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0227789\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">described recently in the journal\u00a0<i>PLOS ONE<\/i><\/a>, consist of tunnels studded with grape-shaped alcoves, where the ancient bees\u2019 larvae could mature undisturbed.<\/p>\n<p>The find adds crucial detail to the evolutionary story of bees, one of the most important pollinator groups, and helps confirm that bees and some of the first flowering plants diversified in tandem around 110 to 120 million years ago, during the Early Cretaceous.<\/p>\n<p>Read full original article at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/science\/2020\/02\/oldest-ever-fossil-bee-nests-discovered-in-patagonia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nationalgeographic.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@borisworkshop?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boris Smokrovic<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/s\/photos\/bees?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 100-million-year-old burrows confirm that bees diversified alongside early flowering plants. A new fossil find has set paleontologists abuzz: Ancient nests confirm that bees were alive and well in Patagonia 100 million years ago, marking the oldest fossil evidence for modern bees. The nests,\u00a0described recently in the journal\u00a0PLOS ONE, consist of tunnels studded with grape-shaped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":20220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[888,1434,1433,1432],"class_list":["post-20219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-bees","tag-flowering-plants","tag-fossil","tag-pollination"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Oldest evidence of modern bees found in Argentina - IGCAT<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/igcat.org\/fr\/oldest-evidence-of-modern-bees-found-in-argentina\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Oldest evidence of modern bees found in Argentina - IGCAT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The 100-million-year-old burrows confirm that bees diversified alongside early flowering plants. 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