This exotic, praying-mantis-like cockroach that lived
at the same time as dinosaurs was caught in amber about 100 million
years ago. It is part of a new family of extinct predatory cockroaches
that hunted at night.
Peter Vršanský
from the Geological Institute in Bratislava, Slovakia, and Günter
Bechly from the State Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart, Germany,
who examined the insect, say its long neck, which allows the head to
rotate freely, and unusually long legs, suggest that it actively pursued
prey. The fossilised insect, called Manipulator modificaputis, was discovered at a mine in Noije Bum, Myanmar.
