DesertFox
05-05-2004, 12:44 AM
<font size=1>BBC News
9 Nov 01</font>
The largest complete fossil of a cockroach has been found in the United States.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1640000/images/_1640807_fossil300.jpg
<font size=1>The fossil, found in eastern Ohio, compared with a modern roach</font>
The insect, about the size of a mouse, lived 55 million years before the first dinosaurs walked the planet.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1640000/images/_1640807_fossil_3_150.jpg
<font size=1>Wings, mouthparts and antennae are visible</font>
The specimen, from a time when some of the land was a giant tropical swamp, was unearthed in a coalmine in eastern Ohio.
More (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1640807.stm)
9 Nov 01</font>
The largest complete fossil of a cockroach has been found in the United States.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1640000/images/_1640807_fossil300.jpg
<font size=1>The fossil, found in eastern Ohio, compared with a modern roach</font>
The insect, about the size of a mouse, lived 55 million years before the first dinosaurs walked the planet.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1640000/images/_1640807_fossil_3_150.jpg
<font size=1>Wings, mouthparts and antennae are visible</font>
The specimen, from a time when some of the land was a giant tropical swamp, was unearthed in a coalmine in eastern Ohio.
More (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1640807.stm)