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Solving the mystery behind a flightless beetle's transatlantic journey
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SignalsMonitor is following this as a technology story. Phys.org Breaking News is the outlet attached so far. The first report grouped here was at 15 Oct 2026, 15:20 UTC. The headline in use is “Solving the mystery behind a flightless beetle's transatlantic journey”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
They can't fly or swim, so why do their closest relatives appear on different continents? Grey Gustafson, an associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, discovered through DNA sequencing that the ancestors of some of today's tiger beetles existed in South America and Africa before the two continents separated.
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Solving the mystery behind a flightless beetle's transatlantic journey
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