{"id":154139,"date":"2023-01-01T20:22:36","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T02:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/alien-looking-insect-trapped-in-amber-represents-its-own-order"},"modified":"2023-01-01T20:22:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T02:22:36","slug":"alien-looking-insect-trapped-in-amber-represents-its-own-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/alien-looking-insect-trapped-in-amber-represents-its-own-order","title":{"rendered":"Alien-Looking Insect Trapped In Amber Represents Its Own Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alien-looking-insect-trapped-in-amber-represents-its-own-order2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nearly a million species of insects, living and extinct, have been scientifically described. These have been placed in thousands of genera, but were grouped into just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entnemdept.ufl.edu\/choate\/insect_orders.htm\">31 orders<\/a>. Now, that number is 32 with the discovery of two 100-million-year-old specimens that are so different from anything we have seen before, they required the creation of a new order.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis insect has a number of features that just don\u2019t match those of any other insect species that I know,\u201d said Emeritus Professor George Poinar of Oregon State University in a <a href=\"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/ua\/ncs\/archives\/2017\/jan\/ancient-scary-and-alien-looking-specimen-forms-rarity-insect-world-%E2%80%93-new-order\">statement<\/a>. \u201cI had never really seen anything like it. It appears to be unique in the insect world, and after considerable discussion we decided it had to take its place in a new order.\u201d The discovery has been published in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0195667116302506\">Cretaceous Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Strange as this pair look, they also seem oddly familiar, appearing to resemble a cross between an ant and the <a href=\"http:\/\/rationalwiki.org\/wiki\/Gray_aliens\">aliens<\/a> people claim abducted them. \u201cWhile insects with triangular-shaped heads are common today, the hypotenuse of the triangle is always located at the base of the head and attached to the neck, with the vertex at the apex of the head,\u201d the paper notes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly a million species of insects, living and extinct, have been scientifically described. These have been placed in thousands of genera, but were grouped into just 31 orders. Now, that number is 32 with the discovery of two 100-million-year-old specimens that are so different from anything we have seen before, they required the creation of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}