Tiny beetle trapped in 53-million-year-old amber is named after Twenty One Pilots

Preserved in amber for about 53 million years, a beetle has been described as a new species by researchers in Spain and France. Named Cnopus twentyonepilotorum, it is the first puppet beetle (family Aderidae) to be formally described from the Oise amber of northern France. The findings are published in the journal ZooKeys.

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