Scientists Discover a 98-Million-Year-Old Mantis With ‘Leaves’ on Its Abdomen, Trapped in Amber : ScienceAlert
In the mid-Cretaceous, a rainforest in what is now Myanmar dripped with sticky tree resin that entombed a very peculiar praying mantis. Now, 98 million years later, this insect is the earliest clear evidence in the fossil record of praying mantises imitating plant leaves. Its abdomen bears an uncanny resemblance to the extinct plant Selaginella … Read more