Insect specimens that have puzzled museum curators for decades turn out to represent a lineage so odd that scientists have named a new order just for them, the first one created in 87 years.
NEW CARNIVORE. Female gladiator collected in Namibia, Mantophasma zephyra, gets a name after almost a century in a museum collection.
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