In their Research article -- Brood care in a 100-million-year-old scale insect -- Wang et al. uncover the earliest fossilised evidence of an insect caring for its young.
The findings push back the earliest direct evidence of insect brood care by more than 50 million years, to at least 100 million years ago when dinosaurs dominated the earth.
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