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New Caterpillar in Baltic amber


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While we're having the most serious debate about a Pterosaur in amber in another TFF section :D I like to share this perfectly preserved Caterpillar newly descriped as Eogeometer vadens by scientists from Munich :) 

 

Especially the details are superb! 

 

Paper in english with no paywall:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-53734-w#Fig1

 

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So cool.

-Dave

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Thank you for sharing.  Very impressive and interesting!!!

The White Queen  ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast"

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