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47 million-year-old bug is the oldest singing cicada fossil from Europe

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By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Pressed into a piece of rock is the flattened, 47 million-year-old body of a cicada. Measuring about 1 inch (26.5 millimeters) long with a wingspan of 2.7 inches (68.2 millimeters), its fossilized form is nearly intact, with its veined wings spread wide. Scientists recently described the insect as a new genus and species, using this fossil and one other that was nearly as well preserved, from the same site. Even …

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47 million-year-old bug is the oldest singing cicada fossil from Europe

Two fossils of singing cicadas, one of which was remarkably well preserved, reveals that the insects dispersed in Europe millions of years earlier than once thought.

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