{"id":166799,"date":"2023-07-02T23:23:11","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T04:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/where-do-butterflies-come-from-scientists-discover-origin-of-species"},"modified":"2023-07-02T23:23:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T04:23:11","slug":"where-do-butterflies-come-from-scientists-discover-origin-of-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/where-do-butterflies-come-from-scientists-discover-origin-of-species","title":{"rendered":"Where do butterflies come from? Scientists discover origin of species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/where-do-butterflies-come-from-scientists-discover-origin-of-species2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>GAINESVILLE, Florida (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kxan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">KXAN<\/a>) \u2014 Did you ever wonder where butterflies came from? A recently published research paper has revealed a surprising origin: North and Central America.<\/p>\n<p>The paper, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41559-023-02041-9\" target=\"_blank\">published in Nature Ecology &amp; Evolution<\/a>, examined DNA from nearly 2,300 species of butterfly. The team used the data to develop a family tree and track down where the species came from.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out, butterflies evolved from nocturnal moths around 101.4 million years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GAINESVILLE, Florida (KXAN) \u2014 Did you ever wonder where butterflies came from? A recently published research paper has revealed a surprising origin: North and Central America. The paper, published in Nature Ecology &amp; Evolution, examined DNA from nearly 2,300 species of butterfly. The team used the data to develop a family tree and track down [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}