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49-Million-Year-Old Cockroach Fossil Found (Green River Formation, Colorado)

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49-Million-Year-Old Cockroach Fossil Found

By Laura Poppick, Live Science, January 06, 2014

http://www.livescience.com/42351-european-cockroach-fossils.html

An Old World Cockroach Species May Have

Originated In North America, Red orbit, January 6, 2014

http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1113039130/old-world-cockroach-species-discovered-north-america-010614/

After a 49-million-year hiatus, a cockroach

reappears in North America, Phys.Org

http://phys.org/news/2014-01-million-year-hiatus-cockroach-reappears-north.html

Vršansky, P., R. Oruzinsky, P. Barna, L. Vidlicka,

and C. C. Labandeira, 2014, Native Ectobius From

the Early Eocene Green River Formation of

Colorado and Its Reintroduction to North America

49 Million Years Later. Annals of the Entomological

Society of America. vol. 107, no.r 1, pp. 28-36.

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/esa/aesa/2014/00000107/00000001/art00003

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Paul H.

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Been trying to kill them off for 49 million years and we still can;t get rid of them!

-Dave

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If I'm going to drive safely, I can't do geology. - John McPhee

Check out my Blog for more fossils I've found: http://viewsofthemahantango.blogspot.com/

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Ah... tis true

-Dave

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Geologists on the whole are inconsistent drivers. When a roadcut presents itself, they tend to lurch and weave. To them, the roadcut is a portal, a fragment of a regional story, a proscenium arch that leads their imaginations into the earth and through the surrounding terrain. - John McPhee

If I'm going to drive safely, I can't do geology. - John McPhee

Check out my Blog for more fossils I've found: http://viewsofthemahantango.blogspot.com/

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