The use of the functional feeding group–damage type system for analyzing arthropod and
pathogen interactions with plants has transformed our understanding of herbivory in fossil …

Time and again, over hundreds of millions of years, environmental disturbances have
caused mass extinctions of animals ranging from reptiles to corals. The anthropogenic loss …

Progress toward understanding the dynamics of ancient plant-insect associations has
addressed major patterns in the ecology and evolution of herbivory and pollination. This …

Melanin, and other pigments have recently been shown to preserve over geologic time
scales, and are found in several different organisms. This opens up the possibility of …

During the past 20 years, more than 1,600 species of well-preserved fossil insects, including
members of over 270 families within 24 orders, have been described from the Middle …

The Mesozoic is a key era for the rise of the modern insect fauna. Among the most important
evolutionary events in Mesozoic insects are the radiation of holometabolous insects, the …

Highlights•Fossil plant–insect interactions record herbivory, pollination, mimicry, and
pathogens.•Studies of the expansion and setbacks in fossil herbivory are increasingly …

Camouflage and mimicry are staples among predator-prey interactions, and evolutionary
novelties in behavior, anatomy, and physiology that permit such mimesis are rife throughout …

Abstract The northeastern Chinese Yanliao Biota (sometimes called the Daohugou Biota)
comprises numerous, frequently spectacular fossils of non‐marine organisms, occurring in …

Willmann, comparing external and internal morphological details, proposed that all extant
Mecoptera families with males possessing a sperm pump be placed in the suborder …