Mindy Weisberger (she/her) on Nostr: Some fossils make you go WHOA at first sight and this is one of them: an ancient ...

Some fossils make you go WHOA at first sight and this is one of them: an ancient grasshopper nest pod with 50 intact eggs. It's the first fossil grasshopper nest ever found!

Discovered at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument (part of the National Park Service) in Oregon, it offers a peek at insect reproduction 29 million years ago. There are 28 ellipsoid eggs visible on the surface, and CT scans revealed about two dozen more.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/16/world/fossil-grasshopper-nest-eggs-scn/index.html

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