A stick like like fossil was found that dates back to a 126 million years. The discovery puts stick insects ahead of flowering plants. Unlike modern stick animals the ancient stick insects were a lot smaller. The ancient stick insects males were only about two inches and the female were about the same.+
This is really cool. It kinda makes me think though because stick animals were suppose to have copied plants as camouflage. The crazy part is that the fossil is older then the first flowering plant. Unless flowering plants are older then we really think. This relates to my biology class because we learned a lot of things about fossils and flowering plants. This article effects me because maybe what we were taught about flowering plants was wrong or the insect.
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"Stick insect, Penang, c.1820 - BL Add.Or.4988." Photogragh. wikimedia Commons. Mediawiki, nd. Web. 20 Mar. 2014. <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stick_insect,_Penang,_c.1820_-_BL_Add.Or.4988.jpg>. |
- How does the author support his claim? Use evidence from the selection to support your answer.The author in this article supports her claim in many ways. One way the author supports her claim is using quotes from the people who studied the fossil. The author claims about the insects coming before we though. One quote she uses is when co-author Olivier Bethoux said "Our grand-cousins were already fooled by grand-cousins of stick and leaf insects 126 million years ago"(Wsterholm). The author also uses The Los Angeles Times Report to support her article. The Los Angeles Times Report said "The researchers found the fossilized insect would have lived in the Cretaceous Jehol biota period."(Wsterholm). This supports the authors claim that the insect came way earlier than we thought. The author used quotes from reliable sources to support her claims throughout this article.
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