La Cucaracha, baby!
Long time…
Armed with a vast amount of genomic information, a team of researchers has performed the first molecular dating to gain the clearest picture yet of the biogeographical history of cockroaches. They have traced back the key evolutionary time points of the cockroach — all the way back almost 300 million years ago when the Earth’s mass was organized into the Pangaea supercontinent.
They have traced back the key evolutionary time points of the cockroach — all the way back almost 300 million years ago when the Earth’s mass was organized into the Pangaea supercontinent. This fossil record of cockroaches suggests that most extant families evolved during the breakup of Pangaea…