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Tiny beetle trapped in 53-million-year-old amber is named after Twenty One Pilots
Preserved in amber for about 53 million years, a beetle has been described as a new species by researchers in Spain and France.
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Researchers in Spain and France have described a new beetle species preserved in about 53‑million‑year‑old amber from northern France. The insect, named Cnopus twentyonepilotorum, is the first formally identified puppet beetle (family Aderidae) from the Oise amber deposit. The description appears in ZooKeys and was led by Jules Ferreira, a Ph.D. candidate at the Institut Botànic de Barcelona and the Universitat de Barcelona, alongside collaborators Erich L. Spiessberger, David Peris, André Nel of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, and Alessandra Patera of the ALBA Synchrotron.
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