Extreme adaptations for probable visual courtship behaviour in a Cretaceous dancing damselfly

Courtship behaviours, frequent among modern insects, have left extremely rare fossil traces. None are known previously for fossil odonatans. Fossil traces of such behaviours are better known among the vertebrates, e.g. the hypertelic antlers of the Pleistocene giant deer Megaloceros giganteus. Here...

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Published in:Sci Rep
Main Authors: Zheng, Daran, Nel, André, Jarzembowski, Edmund A., Chang, Su-Chin, Zhang, Haichun, Xia, Fangyuan, Liu, Haoying, Wang, Bo
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5357891/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28317876
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep44932
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