[SunkenCiv]

Kampecaris obanensis. Kampecaris obanensis. Image credit: British Geological Survey.

[LeoWindhorse]

So that’s where John Bolton came from !

[muskah]

Not a bug. Not even an insect. Sad to come from a source that calls itself “Science News”.

[Red Badger]

It’s not a bug, it’s a creature!.................

[Kickass Conservative]

Wait until they find the Brain Bug.

[Dutch Boy]

It’s a near miracle that any fossil exists at all. Nature usually disposes the carcasses very efficiently. Natures is filled with scavengers that gobble up every last bit. To become a fossil, a critter has to die, not get eaten by scavengers long enough to be covered by the correct material and left long enough for the right kind of minerals to replace the flesh and bone. How does that actually happen in every day nature? It’s got to be nearly impossible to happen but yet is did. Imagine how many things from the past could have vanished without a trace in the fossil record.