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Topic: 100 million year old cockroach
mightymoe Joined Sun 11/19/06 Posts: 37362	Mon 05/04/15 03:17 PM
An extinct cockroach that lived at the same time as the dinosaurs has been found trapped in amber. The fossilised insect, called Manipulator modificaputis, was found in a mine in Myanmar. It was part of a family of cockroaches that actively hunted prey, according to Peter Vršanský from the Geological Institute in Bratislava, Slovakia, and Günter Bechly from the State Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart, Germany, who examined the fossil. Dozens of preserved insects were found in the area in Noije Bum, which Vršanský has declared the most important site of dinosaur-age amber in the world.

metalwing Joined Fri 11/14/08 Posts: 26218	Mon 05/04/15 06:15 PM
I think I saw him in Men in Black III

Rock Joined Thu 10/09/08 Posts: 21258	Mon 05/04/15 06:20 PM
Science finally discovered Nancy Pelosi's gene pool.

mightymoe Joined Sun 11/19/06 Posts: 37362	Tue 05/05/15 10:19 AM
Science finally discovered Nancy Pelosi's gene pool. her oldest relative...

Conrad_73 Joined Sat 09/29/07 Posts: 22488	Tue 05/05/15 10:58 AM
An extinct cockroach that lived at the same time as the dinosaurs has been found trapped in amber. The fossilised insect, called Manipulator modificaputis, was found in a mine in Myanmar. It was part of a family of cockroaches that actively hunted prey, according to Peter Vršanský from the Geological Institute in Bratislava, Slovakia, and Günter Bechly from the State Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart, Germany, who examined the fossil. Dozens of preserved insects were found in the area in Noije Bum, which Vršanský has declared the most important site of dinosaur-age amber in the world. Moment I saw the Image I thought it looked somewhat like a Praying Mantis!

mightymoe Joined Sun 11/19/06 Posts: 37362	Tue 05/05/15 11:04 AM
An extinct cockroach that lived at the same time as the dinosaurs has been found trapped in amber. The fossilised insect, called Manipulator modificaputis, was found in a mine in Myanmar. It was part of a family of cockroaches that actively hunted prey, according to Peter Vršanský from the Geological Institute in Bratislava, Slovakia, and Günter Bechly from the State Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart, Germany, who examined the fossil. Dozens of preserved insects were found in the area in Noije Bum, which Vršanský has declared the most important site of dinosaur-age amber in the world. Moment I saw the Image I thought it looked somewhat like a Praying Mantis! i thought so too... they said it was a carnivore, so maybe they are related? maybe they can get some DNA and check that...

IamwhoIam1 Joined Sun 01/01/12 Posts: 6400	Tue 05/05/15 09:01 PM
Do we know its measurements?

unknown_romeo Joined Wed 03/26/14 Posts: 7691	Tue 05/05/15 09:06 PM
I think I saw him in Men in Black III

Cyriopagopus Joined Wed 05/13/15 Posts: 19	Wed 05/13/15 02:34 PM
Do we know its measurements? How would you use it's measurements? I've used measurements for spiders but I did not think they can be used as a taxonomic tool for identification. More of a rough guide of average size.

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