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Oldest Fossilised Winged Insect Yet Discovered

Posted by Hemos on from the from-the-wayback-machine dept.

tr0llb4rt0 writes "The Scientific American reports on an article in Nature (paid subscription required for full text) on how the fossilised mouth parts of an insect discovered in Scotland in 1928 has turned out to be the oldest winged insect yet discovered, pushing back the age of the earliest appearance of winged insects nearly 80 million years. Previos fossils of winged insects have dated to around 330 million years and scientist believe this new discovery lived between 408 and 438 million years ago. "

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  1. Re:[Troll]Help Me Nerds! by schapman · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    just make an STL list or vector; include stl library dynListOfPointers = new list(); dynListOfPointers.add(new MyClass()); done. :P

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  2. Re:[Troll]Help Me Nerds! by stuffduff · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I suggest that you try Google Groups. Every question asked on usenet...and all the answers they got.

    Good Luck!

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  3. I fail to see how this is news by ArmorFiend · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hm, only 8 comments - maybe nobody's interested because its a boring dead bug.

    I found a small pile of tan dust with two fly wings on top in my mini-tower the other day, but *I* didn't submit it.

    1. Re:I fail to see how this is news by SpaceLifeForm · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Well, of course not. Then your mum would know that you don't clean often enough.

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  4. BBloopers by timothv · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Featured in today's BBlooper

  5. Re:Oldest bug found. by man_ls · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I thought it got jammed in a relay :(