Strange Head (IMAGE)

Oregon State University

Strange Head

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This insect head, that researchers thought almost resembled the way aliens are portrayed, was so unusual it required the extinct insect to be placed in an entirely new scientific order.

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(Photo by George Poinar, Jr., courtesy of Oregon State University)

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