Scientists re-create spiny 'ancestor of the cockroaches' from 300m years ago

Scientists re-create spiny 'ancestor of the cockroaches' from 300m years ago | Mail Online: "They last walked the Earth 305 million years ago - but scientists have now been able to recreate the forms of two insects which were early ancestors of the cockroach.



Scientists from Manchester University had little to go on other than small holes left in a rock by the decomposing bodies of the insects, but by scanning the 'fossils' in a CT scanner - along with 3,000 X-ray scans, they were able to re-produce the insects down to the smallest details."