Preserved Cockroach Was a Giant!
Preserved Cockroach Was a Giant!
A one hundred million year old cockroach was found preserved in amber, and this is not any cockroach! The creature was found in a mine in Myanmar and it is very much different from the modern day cockroach.
For one thing, this guy had a head that could rotate and boasted a long neck, whereas today’s cockroach cannot swivel its head hardly at all. Additionally, this cockroach looks more like a praying mantis, as it had long mantis-like legs. This preserved roach is even more similar to modern day spiders than modern day roaches. However, despite its resemblance to the mantis, the ancient mantis-like roach is indeed a close cousin to the pesky roaches making a home under your refrigerator today.
Perhaps the most significant difference between the modern and extinct roaches is the fact that these days roaches are scavengers, which simply means that modern roaches feed on whatever they can find, particularly sugary foods. But the roach that is now extinct was a predator, and that makes these preserved hell-spawns much more frightening, as I would hate to find one of them in my bathroom taking a shower with me today!
What would you do if you found one of these cockroaches in your kitchen?