Modern Beetles Predate Dinosaurs AOL News

In a curious story about DNA work supposedly placing beetles on Earth, in pretty much their modern form, 70 million years before the appearance of the dinosaurs, scientists think they see an evolutionary process that allowed beetles to handle multiple climate changes. Isn't such an ability to handle these changes without major changes in form more of an adaptation? Don't indications of gigantic size of beetles, found in the fossil record, indicate a devolution from a previously superior form, assuming size equates to superiority? Doesn't the disparity in dates seem too great to be readily accepted without question? Also, Beetle Ancestors 70 Mln Years Older Than Dinosaurs has more information and a slide show.