(This article forms a part of the Science for All newsletter that takes the jargon out of science and puts the fun in! The specific mimicry of flowering plants was once thought to date back to 47 million years ago from fossil records. But now, a new paper in Insect Science records evidence of flowering-plant mimicry farther back to 99 million years ago, when plants were just beginning to morph Earth’s ecological landscape. Insects have evolved in the most ingenious ways to mimic plants, other insects, and even the excreta of other creatures, conservationist Aswathi Asokan told The Hindu. The research paper says, “Insect mimicry of plant structures drives their co-evolution with plants,” adding that fossil evidence of insect–flowering plants mimicry “is exceedingly scarce”.