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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Coxoplectoptera - Dragonfly, Praying Mantis, MayFly and Shrimp?

Cool little article on a great fossil find shedding light on early insect evolution.  Coxoplectoptera - Looks like a chimera with parts from dragonflies, praying mantis and mayflies but yet their larvae look like freshwater shrimp?  Supposedly they were ambush predators.  Just sounds cool.

Found this article on one of my favorite sites - Machines Like Us.

Read the details here -
http://machineslikeus.com/news/mysterious-fossils-provide-new-clues-insect-evolution

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