Researchers have identified a 49-million-year-old beetle on display in a Denver, Colo., museum and named it after famous British natural historian Sir David Attenborough.
TORONTO -- A remarkably complete beetle fossil on display for 26 years in a Denver, Colo., museum and once mislabelled as a longhorn has been identified as a new species and named after the world's most famous natural historian.
"Nobody imparts the grandeur and beauty of nature more impressively than Sir David," said Frank Krell, the senior curator of entomology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, in a. "This fossil, unique in its preservation and beauty, is an apt specimen to honor such a great man." Krell and Francesco Vitali, the invertebrate zoology collections curator at the National Museum of Natural History of Luxembourg, studied the beetle fossil. They found that its crooked hind legs identified it not as a longhorn beetle, but as a type of frog-legged leaf beetle. Beetles are sturdy insects, but aren't typically found intact and usually only leave behind wing cases, the researchers said.
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