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Over 200 million years ago, nature called. It was full of beetles. A 3-D model shows beetles that were preserved in a coprolite, or fossilized dung, from a dinosaur ancestor. A team of researchers found nearly unscathed beetles, now extinct, that are new to science, suspended inside a piece of excrement from the Triassic Period. Qvarnstrom et al. via The New York Times. by Ellie Shechet (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- Imagine a bunch of beetles minding their own business on an algae-covered rock. All of a sudden, they get hoovered up whole into the beak of a slim, long-necked dinosaur ancestor. RIP— but on the bright side, through a complex combination of luck and microbial activity, their tiny corpses become frozen in time. And over 200 million years later, scientists uncover them while rooting around in fossilized feces.

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