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Researchers Find New Ancient Cockroach Species

(Corvallis, OR) -- A researcher at Oregon State University has found a new species of ancient cockroach preserved in amber. The 30-million-year-old specimen was encased in a piece of amber from the Dominican Republic, and it's also the first fossil cockroach to be found with sperm cells. It's the only one ever found in Dominican amber, and it has no living descendants in that area or anywhere else in the West Indies.

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