All butterflies evolved from ancient moths in North America 100 million years ago


Scientists have painstakingly constructed the world’s largest butterfly tree of life and found that the primary butterflies advanced 100 million years in the past in what’s now Central and North America,

Presently, the supercontinent Pangaea was within the means of breaking up, and North America was cut up in two by a seaway separating the east and west. Butterflies originated within the western aspect of this continental chunk.