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This 99-Million-Year-Old Firefly Locked In Amber Is The Oldest Fossil Of Its Kind, Suggesting They Lit Up The Night Sky When Dinosaurs Roamed

Did dinosaurs not believe their eyes as Cretaceous fireflies lit up the world as they fell asleep? The recently announced amber fossil from northern Myanmar contains the preserved remains of a 99-million-year-old firefly, marking the oldest known evidence of these luminous beetles. There have been previous examples of glowing beetle fossils from t... [2003 chars]

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