It seems Canada and Russia have a prehistoric connection of the “beautiful” but “cockroachy” kind, involving a 53 million-year-old insect fossil called a scorpionfly.
Paleoentomologist Bruce Archibald of Simon Fraser University and the Royal B.C. Museum said the discovery in B.C.’s McAbee fossil beds is strikingly similar to fossils of the
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