29 million-year-old nest of fossilised grasshopper eggs found

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The rather amazing discovery of an underground nest of about 50 fossilised eggs of an insect in the grasshopper-lineage (orthoptera) has been discovered in Michell, Oregon, at the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument. It's dated to the Oligocene-period, at 29 million years old, and is truly spectacular for its preservation. Insect eggs rarely preserve, and little information exists on the evolution of grasshopper-relatives. So finding a nest full of them is an amazing discovery!

 

CNN-report here, original article here.

 

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thats a really cool find, have seen it at the biggest social media platform a day ago. Wow

thanks for posting!

[RJB]

This is really cool!  Never seen anything like this before.  Thanks

 

RB

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Wow that's amazing!