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New order of Cretaceous Dictyopteran insects!
Topic Started: Mar 7 2016, 11:19 PM (428 Views)
Yi Qi
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1342937X16300041

An exquisite, amber preserved new relative of modern day Cockroaches and Praying Mantises from the late cretaceous!
Edited by Yi Qi, Mar 7 2016, 11:21 PM.
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Incinerox
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Āeksiot Zaldrīzoti

Yi Qi
Mar 7 2016, 11:19 PM
NOPE.

Nope, nope, get it away from me.

This just ruined the Cretaceous for me. Raptorial roaches, NOPE.
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Jules
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Mihi est imperare orbi universo

And of course it has to be called goddamn Alienoptera.
I was half-expecting xenomorph roaches until I saw the pic.
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Incinerox
Mar 8 2016, 08:59 AM
Yi Qi
Mar 7 2016, 11:19 PM
NOPE.

Nope, nope, get it away from me.

That quote there reminds me a lot of that one scene of the original Alien movie... Fitting. Cause Alienoptera, and such.
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Acinonyx Jubatus
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I AM THE UNSHRINKWRAPPER!

This thing is awesome. I love cockroaches, mantises and anything related to them, so this discovery kind of made my day.
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