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A Poppy Seed-Sized Beetle Locked in Amber 53 Million Years Ago Mirrors Its Modern Relatives

Learn how researchers used X-rays to build a 3D model of the beetle without cutting into the amber, identify a fossil that pushes its lineage's known history back by about 15 million years, and learn why they named it after Twenty One Pilots.

A Poppy Seed-Sized Beetle Locked in Amber 53 Million Years Ago Mirrors Its Modern Relatives

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