The Prehistoric Insect that Has Paralysed the Scientific Community: 100 Million Years and Giant Claws

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A team of researchers has found a prehistoric insect trapped in amber in a site in the state of Kachin in northern Myanmar. It is an “exceptional” finding, which provides new information about the forest ecosystem of about 100 million years ago. According to experts, its large tweezers (or chelas) on the front legs, remind of the appendages of crabs and are extremely unusual in insects. “Previously, these were known only in three groups of insec…