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Scientist calls fossilized assassin bug private parts ‘a rare treat’ – CNET
A stunningly well-preserved 50-million-year-old fossil is giving insights into insect history.
Found in Colorado, this fossil is a species now called Aphelicophontes danjuddi. A small beetle also appears with the larger assassin bug.
Daniel Swanson/Palaeontological Association
Perhaps the phrase should be “snug as a bug in a rock.”
University of Illinois entomology graduate student Daniel Swanson was able to see the intimate details of an assassin bug’s genitalia in a 50-million-year-old fossil. The genital capsule is as small as a grain of rice, but it’s revealed its secrets after all this…
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