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The recently uncovered 87-million-year-old specimen of praying mantis is believed to be the "missing link" between the giant Cretaceous mantises and today's similar insects. While this is acknowledged to be truly a rare find, the importance of this discovery is yet to be evaluated. The fossil insect is 1.4... |
22 September 2008
08:16 GMT |
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These insects are better known for their specific hunting technique, for using their forelegs in order to maintain a "praying" posture in the stalk and for the cannibalistic habits of the female during mating. The praying mantises are known to be related to cockroaches, stick insects and termites. A new 87-million-ye... |
30 April 2008
02:44 GMT |
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Opaque amber looks like a stone. The naked eye cannot see anything in this material. But, because it is a fossil resin, it can incorporate fossils like any other amber. So far, palaeontologists have found in amber from fossil insects and microbes to small vertebrates (like frogs), feathers, plant organs and pollen. N... |
3 April 2008
03:23 GMT |
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We know that some carnivorous (theropod) dinosaurs were feathered. Archaeopteryx, the oldest bird-dinosaur fossil discovered, was feathered, too. But the fossils preserved only imprints of feathers, as the feathers themselves degrade in time. However, this new discovery published in the journal "Proceedings of the R... |
12 March 2008
03:40 GMT |
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We talk about asteroid impacts or massive volcanic eruptions, but in fact the largest beasts that roamed the Earth could have been wiped out by one of the tiniest: insects. More precisely, biting, disease-carrying insects. And this proof could emerge from amber."There are serious problems with the sudden impact theor... |
4 January 2008
04:12 GMT |
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Mustard gas may have killed thousands of soldiers, but the trick was already used in nature even before humans and moreover, it seems that it has been so for at least 100 million years.Researchers at Oregon State University have presented a soldier beetle, preserved almost perfectly in amber, while employing chemical... |
10 September 2007
06:34 GMT |
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Amber is priced not only in jewelry but also by scientists, too: it can offer glimpses of past life that other fossils cannot, as it can preserve soft tissues. This is how Oregon researchers have found the world's oldest mushroom, embedded in a 100-million-year-old piece of amber. This is about 20 million years ... |
11 June 2007
05:26 GMT |
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