Dinosaur-times cockroach caught in amber, from Myanmar
Friday, May 1, 2015 - 16:30
in Biology & Nature
Geologica Carpathica has a paper on a new family of predatory cockroaches. Predatory? The authors, Peter Vrsansky and Günter Bechly, from the Slovak Republic and Germany, respectively, said that "unique adaptations such as strongly elongated extremities and freely movable head on a long neck suggest that these animals were pursuit predators."