The fossil beetle, Propiestus archaicus, preserved in amber
(Credit: Field Museum, Shuhei Yamamoto)
Paul McCartney doesn’t look much better.
99 million? LOL! How do they know this? Did they find it’s birth certificate too? I think they pull up these dates out of thin air because it satisfies them as “it sounds good”.
“The antennae probably had a highly sensitive ability as a sensory organ,” Yamamoto said. “There wouldn’t have been a lot of space available in the beetle’s habitat, so it was important to be able to detect everything.”
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Except for tree resin that would trap it for 99 million years.
Tell Amber to stop eating bugs.
It’s a shame the Burmese don’t know they live in Burma.
It was still Burma then.
Paul must’ve kicked him out of the band even before kicking out Pete Best.
99 million year old, ya sure
I have a question that I am hoping a smart biologist or scientist can help me understand.
First, please understand that I believe in evolution and that I am not looking for any young earthers or creationists to answer this.
but....Why is it that this species along with nearly every other species can exist in the same basic form for millions and millions of years while some species (us) dramatically change over the course of a couple hundred thousand years?
I would expect to see a bug that looks nearly identical to this beetle if I were to walk out in the woods today. On the other hand, 99 million years ago there was nothing that even looked remotely similar to a human being.
How is that so?
It seems that these beetles (or crocodiles, or fish, or sharks, or lizards, or birds, or jelly fish, or octopus, or trees, or grass, or mussels, or mushrooms, or bacteria, etc...) are so well adapted and good at survival that they don’t need to change at all (or only slightly) over tens of millions of years. At the same time, we are so terrible at survival that we need to be constantly, radically changing our form just to survive the environment.
Is that the answer?.....We just suck at living?
As a follow up, are there any other species that suck anywhere close to as bad as we do and nothing even similar to their form and function existed just 1 or 2 million years ago?
*ping*
Did they let the bug out?