Bees 200 Million Years Ago

In the lecture it is stated that bees could have exists as early as 200 million years ago. The lecture refutes the claims made in the passage. basically three points are discussed in the article and in the lecture, the professor addresses all three issues with specific points.

Firstly, the passage states that in the 200-million year-old fossilized trees found in the state of Arizona in the southwestern United States did not contain any fossils of actual bees. But the lecture refutes this claim as at that time, 200 million years ago bees could not have been preserved. It could not be possible because there may not be trees that provided the chemical to fossilize bees.

Secondly, the passage claims that 200 million years ago there were no flowering plants available. And from our today's experience we know that bees feed almost exclusively on the flowers of the flowering plants. As there were no flowering plants at that time it could not have been possible that bees exists. But as stated in the lecture, it is not important for bees to only exclusively live on flowering plants, bees could have been feed by non-flowering plants like, fonds. When flowering plants first appeared on Earth 125 million years ago, bees could have switched to flowering plants due to evolution. …show more content…
But there is another issue stated in the lecture, though the structures lack spiral caps, the contain a sort of water proofing chemical that is found in structures in today's bee nests. This idea is confirmed by chemical analysis of the nests. Chemical analysis proves that the nests contain the same type of water proofing chemical that is used in modern bees. Though the article tries to undermine the claim that bees could have exist 200 million years ago, the lecture refutes this claim in every