Student discovers 120 million year old fossil belonging to ancestor of long horned grasshopper
Q. Student in China, Wang He discovered a 120 million year old fossil which belonged to the ancestor of the _______________ on 29th October, 2015.- Published on 30 Oct 15a. Ant
b. Grasshopper
c. Bee
d. Snake
ANSWER: Grasshopper
A Chinese student, Wang He from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology has discovered a 120 million year old fossil preserving a 3 cm section of the insect’s wing at Gansu province. Most insects only have wings preserved because the body is easily decomposed. Insect fossil discovered belonged to an ancestor of the modern katydid. Structure of the wing suggests insect could sing like modern counterpart. Fossils of this orthopteran family named Prophalangopsidae have only been found in other regions of China and the world before this. These insects lived in the Cretaceous Period when the earliest flowers started appearing and they ate flowers and plant leaves.
