Rare 50 million-year-old fossilized bug flashes its penis for posterity
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Enlarge / This poor fossilized assassin bug's tiny penis is being closely scrutinized by paleontologists who consider the find "a…
Enlarge / This poor fossilized assassin bug's tiny penis is being closely scrutinized by paleontologists who consider the find "a…
It's Valentine's Day, and just to make this "holiday" even more awkward, here are some images of bugs having sex.
I have a fun Opinion piece to direct you to titled 'Shocking Sex Secrets of Insects'- written by Marlene Zuk and published…
Najstarszą skamieniałość przedstawiającą owady podczas stosunku odkryto w północno-wschodnich Chinach. Fot. Li S, Shih C, Wang C…
A team of scientists has found a well-preserved, 165-million-year-old fossil of copulating froghoppers, Anthoscytina perpetua…
What you're looking at is the earliest record of insects doing the nasty. The extraordinary fossil dates back to the Middle…
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Image via PLOS ONE/Li et. al. A lot has changed in the last 165 million years. A cluster of islands coalesced to form Europe…
Prehistoric animals had sex. They must have. As paleontologist Derek Ager wrote in his classic Pricinples of Paleoecology, “After…