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New species found in eBay fossil

A scientist who bought a fossilised insect on eBay for £20 has discovered that what he thought was an aphid turned out to be an undiscovered species. The vice-president of the Royal Entomological Society Dr Richard Harrington suggests where this extinct fossil may have originated from.

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