99-million-year-old beetle preserved in amber

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Featherwing beetles are smaller than the period at the end of this sentence. They get their name from the feathery fringe on their wings that enables them to catch the air and float like dandelion seeds. And, it turns out, they go way back— scientists discovered a 99-million-year-old featherwing beetle preserved in amber, and they named it "Jason."

"This tiny beetle lived during the Cretaceous Period, it saw actual dinosaurs," says Shuhei Yamamoto, a researcher at the Field Museum in Chicago and co-lead author of a paper describing the beetle in Cretaceous Research. "The amber the beetle was found in is like a time capsule."

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-tiny-paragliding-beetle-dinosaurs-amber.html

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5 minutes ago, seanjo said:

Jason is not a beetle name!

yeah shoulda been a Paul or a Ringo for sure  

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On 6/7/2018 at 2:03 PM, seanjo said:

Jason is not a beetle name!

Well it would be if they named the amber it was found in the Argonaught. Then they would have to display it next to a Hercules beetle to make it stick.