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COCKROACH
Age: 125 million years old
Size: 26 millimeters (1 in); matrix: 85 millimeters (3.3 in) by 77 millimeters (3 in)
Location: Chao Yang, Liaoning Province
Formation: Yixian Formation
Period: Lower Cretaceous
Insects are arthropods belonging to the Insecta class. The oldest insect fossils
date from the Devonian Period (417 to 354 million years ago). However, during
the more recent Carboniferous Period (354 to 290 million years ago) various
kinds of insects appeared all of a sudden. For instance, cockroaches appear
suddenly complete with the structures they still have today. Betty Faber of the
American Museum of Natural History says that 350-million-year-old cockroach
fossils are identical with those of today. (M. Kusinitz, Science World, 4 February
1983, p. 1.)
The 125-million-year-old fossil in the picture is evidence that cockroaches have
not evolved for hundreds of millions years.
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