Peter Borst submitted a copy of an article in today's New York Times.
Unfortunately, due to copyrights, the article cannot be quoted on BEE-L.
For those who subscribe to the online New York Times, the article can be
viewed at:
http://www.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/12/scie
nce/12INSE.html
(Watch the line wrap in that URL, which should be a contiguous character
stream).

Without violating copyrights, the article starts as follows:

Oldest Known Insect Identified From 400-Million-Year-Old Jaws
By CAROL KAESUK YOON
NY TIMES February 12, 2004

Scientists say they have discovered the world's oldest known insect
fossil, a 400-million-year-old set of minuscule jaws that have been lying
unrecognized for nearly a century in a drawer at the Natural History Museum
in London.

The finding, being published today in the journal Nature, ....

For those who subscribe to Nature, the full article can be viewed at:
http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v427/n6975/f
ull/nature02291_fs.html
(Again, watch the line wrap).


Aaron Morris - thinking copyrights police, sigh :-(

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