Scientist calls 50-million-year-old fossilized bug private parts 'a rare treat'
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A stunningly well-preserved fossil is giving insights into insect history.
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This fossil reveals how dinosaurs peed, pooped and had sex
We know a lot about dinosaurs -- what they looked like, what they ate and what killed them off -- but no fossils have definitively preserved two dinosaurs in the act of mating.
This fossil reveals how dinosaurs peed, pooped and had sex - Local News 8
We know a lot about dinosaurs — what they looked like,what they ate and what killed them off — but no fossils have definitively preserved two dinosaurs in the act of mating.However, a fossil from China of a Psittacosaurus is so well preserved that the opening the Labrador-size dinosaur used to pee, poop and reproduce is visible, allowing paleontologists to study it for the first time.While it doesn’t offer any concrete answers on how dinosaurs m…
50 million-year-old fossil assassin bug has unusually well-preserved genitalia
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau) The fossilized insect is tiny and its genital capsule, called a pygophore, is roughly the length of a grain of rice. It is remarkable, scientists say, because the bug's physical characteristics -- from the bold banding pattern on its legs to the internal features of its genitalia -- are clearly visible and well-preserved. Recovered from the Green River Formation in present-day Colorado, t…
50 million-year-old fossil assassin bug has unusually well-preserved genitalia
The fossilized insect is tiny and its genital capsule, called a pygophore, is roughly the length of a grain of rice. It is remarkable, scientists say, because the bug's physical characteristics—from the bold banding pattern on its legs to the internal features of its genitalia—are clearly visible and well-preserved. Recovered from the Green River Formation in present-day Colorado, the fossil represents a new genus and species of predatory insect…
