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Ancient cicada wings evolved to deal with evolutionary changes in birds, study suggests
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Ancient cicada wings evolved to deal with evolutionary changes in birds, study suggests

A team of paleobiologists and zoologists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Linyi University and Wageningen University has found evidence that the evolution of insect-eating birds likely drove relatively swift changes to the wings of ancient cicadas. In their paper, published in Science Advances, the group examined evolutional changes in more than 80 species of cicada wings during the Mesozoic era.
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