Saturday, September 8, 2012

FOSSIL MUSEUM - AI0046: BARKLOUSE


FOSSIL NO:AI0046
AGE:25 million years
TERM:Oligocene
LOCATION:Dominican Republic



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OTHER INFORMATION:
We have countless fossil specimens belonging to thousands of insect species, all of which fossils show that they have had the same characteristics since they first came into being and never evolved. One of these fossils is a 25-million-year-old amber chunk showing that barklice have been the same for millions of years.

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