Darwin's Prediction: Long Proboscis

Darwin's Prediction: Long Proboscis

Charles Darwin predicted the Madagascan hawkmoth, a species of hawkmoth with a proboscis nearly 30 centimeters long, in 1862 after observing a sample of an orchid specimen with an extremely long nectar tube. Scientists finally discovered this species in 1903.

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