New beetle species identified from 49 million year old fossil (IMAGE)

Denver Museum of Nature & Science

New beetle species identified from 49 million year old fossil

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The new frog-legged beetle species, Pulchritudo attenboroughi, or Attenborough’s Beauty, was identified by Frank Krell, Denver Museum of Nature & Science Senior Curator of Entomology and Francesco Vitali, National Museum of Natural History of Luxembourg Invertebrate Zoology Collections Curator in August 2021.

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