Science
Perfectly-preserved ‘bog beetles’ nearly as old as Egypt’s pyramids – Livescience.com
A bog preserved these beetles’ bodies.
Two thumb-size beetles found preserved in an English bog may look as though they died as recently as yesterday, but in reality they’re nearly as ancient as Egypt’s pyramids, new research finds.
The two oak capricorn beetles (that belonged to the genus Cerambyx) date back 3,785 years, according to radiocarbon dating. That means these beetles perished inside a piece of bogwood just as the last woolly mammoths
were dying out on Siberia’s Wrangel Island, half a world over.
“These beetles are older…
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