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Scientists Discover a 98-Million-Year-Old Mantis With 'Leaves' on Its Abdomen, Trapped in Amber
In the mid-Cretaceous, a tropical rainforest in what is now Myanmar was dripping with sticky tree resin that entombed a very peculiar praying mantis.
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In the mid-Cretaceous, a tropical rainforest in what is now Myanmar was dripping with sticky tree resin that entombed a very peculiar praying mantis. Now, 98 million years later, this insect is the earliest clear evidence in the fossil record of praying mantises mimicking plant leaves.
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