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A Model Cockroach?

  • February 27, 2013
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Researchers in London created a 3-D model of an ancient cockroach ancestor called Archimylacris eggintoni. They used this “virtual fossil” to figure out what the winged creature’s legs looked like — and learned that the bug could stick to surfaces, climb well, and run fast.

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