Insect fossils

Fossil Dragonfly - Araripegomphus andreneli - fossil : 2.519" (6.4 cm) wingspan - 2.20" (5.6 cm) head & body length - matrix : 4.52" (11.5 cm) x 5.51" (14 cm) - Lower Cretaceous / Late Aptian - Cenomania : 108-92 million years ago - Crato Formation - Nova Olinda Member (older insect-bearing strata) - Ceara, Brazil

<<>^^<>> Fossil Bee <<>^^<>> <>about 35 million years ago<>

Dr David Penney (UK) and Dr Jason Dunlop (Germany) When it comes to fossils, arachnids are not a group that obviously springs to mind. However, with more than 100,000 described living species, Arachnida form the second most diverse group of primarily land-living organisms after the insects. And they probably made up a significant proportion of…

IU paleobotanist David Dilcher is a co-author on a study out today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society: B that identifies a Jurassic age insect whose behavior and appearance closely mimic a butterfly - but whose emergence on Earth predates the butterfly by about 40 million years. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News

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Have fun making bug fossils with playdough.

Trilobite, Paradoxides sp., extinct - John Sibbick Gouache, undated, © Natural History Museum

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