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Ancient beetle reveals a missing chapter in firefly evolution
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Paleontologists have discovered a 100-million-year-old beetle preserved in amber with a unique, complex antenna structure. The specimen, named Icaroramus perisi, features a 'quadriheteroramose' branching pattern never before seen in any insect species.
About 100 million years ago, a small beetle crawled across a tree in what is now northern Myanmar and got caught in a bead of resin.
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