FOSSIL COCKROACHES.
FROM CARBONIFEROUS PERIOD rnecelred l< >.:sr> a.m.) BRISBANE, May n. ' The Government Geologist states that fossil ins'-ol remains found in n quarry at I Ipuwich complete tho chain of cockroaches from cnrlionifcroHß tiiur? to the present day. ii period of four million years. This quarry yielded 120 new species of insect remains', and doubtless others will he unearthed.—(A, andTS.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 105, 4 May 1923, Page 5
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62FOSSIL COCKROACHES. Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 105, 4 May 1923, Page 5
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