Thursday, April 10, 2008

hidden bug treasure

http://www.livescience.com/animals/080409-opaque-amber.html
I like the comments: "We are not really studying the insects to know the insects themselves," Tafforeau said. "If you have a lot of different animals you can get a signal about the temperature and the environment 100 million years ago."
So even the most ardent entomologists quail at having to classify another whopping great bunch of beetles.

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