Scientists Identify 100-Million-Year-Old Insect With Crab-Like Claws

From a fragment of ancient amber in Myanmar, scientists have recovered a 100-million-year-old insect that evolution shaped into something startlingly crab-like — a true bug bearing large pincer claws on its front legs, a design so rare it has appeared independently only three other times in all of insect history. The discovery, led by researchers at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, offers a quiet reminder that nature, given similar problems, will sometimes find the same answer across vast distances of time and lineage. It is a story not of uniqueness, but of repetition — of life converg