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This 100-Million-Year-Old Bug Had Crab-Like Claws Unlike Those of Any Insect Alive Today

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It's a rare evolutionary experiment in insect weaponry.

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A small insect has been trapped in amber since the time of the dinosaurs. When scientists examined the find, they discovered something that had never before been observed in a fossil insect. The fossil comes from the Kachin region of Myanmar and is about 100 million years old. A research team at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich has described the species in the journal Insects. The newly discovered insect has been named Carcinonepa li…

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ScandAsia broke the news on Tuesday, May 26, 2026.
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