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125-Million-Year-Old Fossil Shines Light on Origin of Subterranean Freshwater Isopods

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125-Million-Year-Old Fossil Shines Light on Origin of Subterranean Freshwater Isopods
Paleoenvironmental habitat reconstruction for Dysopodus gezei (foreground): a Barremian freshwater lake in the region of present-day Bkassine, Lebanon. Image credit: Aldrich Hezekiah.

A new genus and species of cymothoidan isopod that lived during the Early Cretaceous epoch has been identified from two well-preserved specimens found in Lebanon.

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