Your Weekly Attenborough: Electrotettix attenboroughi

One grasshopper, mint condition.

By Nathaniel Scharping
Apr 14, 2018 2:10 AMFeb 11, 2020 8:43 PM
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Attenborough's amber grasshopper. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)

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Last week I waxed mildly poetic on the ephemeral nature of living beings and the inorganic reality of a fossil. Fossils are just shadows, I said, or memories ... or something like that.

Well, this week I've got something much more exciting and less poetic. It's an ancient pygmy grasshopper, Electrotettix attenboroughi, and it's no rocky fossil, no sir.

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