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  • A Triassic Insect Was Found Perfectly Preserved in Dinosaur Poop For The First Time

    07/02/2021 7:59:42 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 31 replies
    https://www.sciencealert.com ^ | 2 JULY 2021 | CARLY CASSELLA
    3D reconstruction of Triamyxa coprolithica. (Qvarnström et al.) =============================================================================== Way back in the Late Triassic period, in what is now modern day Poland, a long-snouted dinosaur ate a big meal of green algae and then took a poop. It was a day like any other for the animal, but for us, roughly 230-million years later, those very fossilized feces have revealed an entire family of undigested beetles. The insects are the first to be described from fossilized feces and they are unlike anything we've discovered in amber before. Not only are these insects much more ancient, their legs and antennae...