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A 40- to 50-million-year-old cockroach in Baltic amber . Cockroaches are members of the superorder Dictyoptera, which includes the termites and mantids, [5] a group of insects once thought to be separate from cockroaches. Currently, 4,600 species and over 460 genera are described worldwide.
Simandoa conserfariam, [1] also known as the Simandoa cave roach, [2] is a species of ovoviviparous, blaberid African cockroach that is considered extinct-in-the-wild (EW) due to human encroachment, industrial damage and pollution in their native range caused by bauxite and iron ore mining.
The earliest evidence for life on Earth includes: 3.8 billion-year-old biogenic hematite in a banded iron formation of the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt in Canada; [30] graphite in 3.7 billion-year-old metasedimentary rocks in western Greenland; [31] and microbial mat fossils in 3.48 billion-year-old sandstone in Western Australia.
Cockroaches are experts at surviving indoors, hiding in kitchen pipes or musty drawers. A new study uses genetics to chart cockroaches' spread across the globe, from humble beginnings in southeast ...
Scientists have identified the oldest living species on Earth is a deep sea organism that hasn't evolved in more than two billion years. And, it may prove Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
Ectobius vittiventris, the amber wood cockroach or amber forest cockroach, is a species belonging to the order Blattodea and is a type of wood cockroach originally from southern Europe. It is completely harmless to humans and is not a storage pest , as it only feeds on decomposing plant material and perishes within a few days in human dwellings ...
Cockroaches are popularly thought to be an ancient order of insects, with their origins in the Carboniferous. [4] However, since the middle of the 20th century it has been known that the primitive cockroach insects found fossilized in Palaeozoic strata are the forerunners not only of modern cockroaches and termites but also of mantises . [ 5 ]
Panesthia cribrata, commonly called the Australian wood cockroach, is a wood-eating species found in rotten logs. It is found from south east Queensland south to the east coast to Tasmania , also seen at Norfolk Island . [ 2 ]