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Wing imprints reveal dino-era praying mantis


Researchers have identified a new species of praying mantis thanks to imprints of its fossilized wings.
It lived in Labrador, in the Canadian Subarctic around 100 million years ago, during the time of the dinosaurs, in the Late Cretaceous period.
Artist’s interpretation of
Labradormantis guilbaulti in liftoff among the leaves of a sycamore tree in Labrador around 100 million years ago. (Credit: A. Demers-Potvin/McGill)
The researchers believe that the fossils of the new genus and species,
Labradormantis guilbaulti, helps to establish evolutionary relationships between previously known species and advances the scientific understanding of the evolution of the most “primitive” modern praying mantises. The unusual find, which appears in the journal ....

France General , Alexandre Demers Potvin , A Demers Potvin Mcgill , Hans Larsson , National Geographic Society , Mcgill Redpath Museum , National Geographic Emerging Explorer , Engineering Research Council Of Canada , Natural Sciences , Canadian Subarctic , Late Cretaceous , Systematic Entomology , Reflectance Transformation Imaging , Redpath Museum , Engineering Research Council , Polar Knowledge Canada , பிரான்ஸ் ஜநரல் , அலெக்ஸாண்ட்ரே டெமர்கள் பொதுவின் , ஹான்ஸ் லார்சன் , தேசிய புவியியல் சமூகம் , மகில் ரெட்‌ப்யாத் அருங்காட்சியகம் , தேசிய புவியியல் வளர்ந்து வருகிறது ஆய்வுப்பணி , பொறியியல் ஆராய்ச்சி சபை ஆஃப் கனடா , இயற்கை அறிவியல் , தாமதமாக கிரேதாஸோஸ் , முறையான பூச்சியியல் ,