RE: New order of Bug found - ALSO, Oldest Bird Clocks 5 million miles

["Allan Edels" <edels@msn.Com>]

Here's CNN's posting of it (from AP):
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/04/18/new.insect.ap/index.html 

Note that the ones preserved in Baltic Amber are 45 mya, and it is
suggested that they are much older  - "These creatures are some of the
last witnesses of the time when Africa and America were part of the same
landmass," 

Nearly dinosaurian in age.

Speaking of modern (living, avian) dinosaurs -

See this, also at CNN.COM:
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/04/18/britain.bird/index.html

(From the title I thought that someone had sent an _Archaeopteryx_
specimen on the last several shuttle flights :-).

Allan Edels

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu] On Behalf
Of no go
Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 1:23 AM
To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: New order of Bug found


This is not related to dinosaurs, but there has been a new order of
insects 
previously though to be extinct discovered.

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