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This week's links are both to popular science articles about giant insects-
the first-
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2108736/Extinct-tree-lobster-alive-clinging-Pacific-rock-taller-Empire-State-Building.html
- tells the story of the world's largest stick insects being found on an isolated rocky outcrop near Lord between Australia and New Zealand, some 80 years after the species was thought extinct.
Meanwhile, scientists in China have unearthed the fossilized remains of giant prehistoric fleas-three or four times larger than modern fleas. As the yahoo news-article explains, "Nine perfectly preserved fossils were unearthed from
165-million-year-old Jurassic deposits in Daohugou, northeast China, and
the 125-million-year-old Cretaceous strata at Huangbanjigou, China." You can find the full text here-
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/monster-fleas-sucked-the-blood-of-jurassic-dinosaurs.html
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