Ancient Insects Protect Prospective Children by Carrying Eggs on Their Feet

KOMPAS.com- Insects ancients who lived 160 million years ago are known to carry eggs on their feet. So many, the eggs they carry dangle like grapes hanging from vines.

The findings, according to researchers, are the earliest examples of parental care in the world insectswhere the parent protects the eggs or offspring by bringing them along.

Quoted from Live Science, Wednesday (13/7/2022) evidence of this finding was revealed after scientists recently after digging insect fossils very well-preserved water in the Haifangou Formation, near the village of Daohugou in northeastern China.

A wide variety of fossils have been found at the site, including the remains of feathered dinosaurs, ancient mammals, giant ticks and long-proboscis scorpions.

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Education ancient insects carry eggs on his feet published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

In this study the researchers analyzed nearly 160 fossils Karataviella popsan ancient insect of an extinct species of water flea with paddle-like hind legs.

Insect fossils These so-called extraordinary researchers are 163.5 million years old, which means they date back to the mid-Jurassic period (201.3 million to 145.5 million years ago).

Among the fossils water insects In this study, the team identified 30 adult female specimens with a cluster of eggs in the middle leg (mesotibia) on their left side.

Telur-insect eggs the dense ancient was arranged in five or six rows, each consisting of six to seven eggs.

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