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49 million-year-old beetle looks like it was squashed yesterday – Livescience.com
Paleontologists named the insect “Attenborough’s Beauty,” after Sir David Attenborough.
A beetle that lived about 49 million years ago is so well-preserved that the insect looks like it could spread its strikingly patterned wing coverings and fly away. That is, if it weren’t squashed and fossilized.
Wing cases, or elytra, are one of the sturdiest…
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