{"id":11605,"date":"2021-08-16T10:10:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T15:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/losperiodistas.com.mx\/portal\/?p=11605"},"modified":"2021-08-16T05:09:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T10:09:42","slug":"identifican-un-nuevo-escarabajo-que-vivio-hace-49-millones-de-anos-al-analizar-uno-de-los-fosiles-mas-magnificos-jamas-encontrados-rt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losperiodistas.com.mx\/portal\/identifican-un-nuevo-escarabajo-que-vivio-hace-49-millones-de-anos-al-analizar-uno-de-los-fosiles-mas-magnificos-jamas-encontrados-rt\/","title":{"rendered":"Identifican un nuevo escarabajo que vivi\u00f3 hace 49 millones de a\u00f1os al analizar uno de los f\u00f3siles \u00abm\u00e1s magn\u00edficos jam\u00e1s encontrados\u00bb | RT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><em>A pesar de que el artr\u00f3podo ha formado parte de la exhibici\u00f3n &#8216;Viaje prehist\u00f3rico&#8217; del Museo de Naturaleza y Ciencia de Denver desde 1995, el insecto hab\u00eda sido err\u00f3neamente identificado como un escarabajo de cuernos largos.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"578\" src=\"https:\/\/losperiodistas.com.mx\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Captura-de-Pantalla-2021-08-16-a-las-4.57.17-1024x578.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losperiodistas.com.mx\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Captura-de-Pantalla-2021-08-16-a-las-4.57.17-1024x578.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/losperiodistas.com.mx\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Captura-de-Pantalla-2021-08-16-a-las-4.57.17-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losperiodistas.com.mx\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Captura-de-Pantalla-2021-08-16-a-las-4.57.17-768x434.jpg 768w, https:\/\/losperiodistas.com.mx\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Captura-de-Pantalla-2021-08-16-a-las-4.57.17-1536x868.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/losperiodistas.com.mx\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Captura-de-Pantalla-2021-08-16-a-las-4.57.17-2048x1157.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>F\u00f3sil de &#8216;Pulchritudo attenboroughi&#8217;.Museo de Naturaleza y Ciencia de Denver<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\">RT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Investigadores del Museo de Naturaleza y Ciencia de Denver (EE.UU) y del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Luxemburgo identificaron una nueva especie de escarabajo que vivi\u00f3 durante el Eoceno, hace unos&nbsp;<strong>49 millones a\u00f1os<\/strong>, tras analizar unos de los ejemplares f\u00f3siles&nbsp;<strong>mejor conservados<\/strong>&nbsp;de este insecto que se conocen,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmns.org\/press-room\/press-releases\/scientists-name-new-frog-legged-beetle-fossil-for-sir-david-attenborough\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">inform\u00f3<\/a>&nbsp;la instituci\u00f3n estadounidense a trav\u00e9s de un comunicado.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>La nueva especie de escarabajo con patas de rana, denominado &#8216;Pulchritudo attenboroughi&#8217;, forma parte de la exposici\u00f3n &#8216;Viaje prehist\u00f3rico&#8217; del Museo de Naturaleza y Ciencia de Denver desde 1995; no obstante, el ejemplar, recuperado de la formaci\u00f3n Green River, en el estado de Colorado, hab\u00eda sido&nbsp;<strong>err\u00f3neamente identificado<\/strong>&nbsp;como un escarabajo de cuernos largos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Puesto que algunas caracter\u00edsticas del artr\u00f3podo no coincid\u00edan con las de la especie propuesta para su identificaci\u00f3n, Frank Krell y Francesco Vitali, de los museos de Denver y Luxemburgo, respectivamente, se dieron a la tarea de analizar de nueva cuenta el f\u00f3sil del escarabajo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/actualidad\/public_images\/2021.08\/original\/6119cb22e9ff713c0376db5d.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Reconstrucci\u00f3n digital de un &#8216;Pulchritudo attenboroughi&#8217;.Museo de Naturaleza y Ciencia de Denver<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tras reanalizar los restos y las caracter\u00edsticas del insecto, los cient\u00edficos notaron que la tibia de las patas traseras presentaba una ligera curvatura, caracter\u00edstica que revel\u00f3 que el f\u00f3sil pertenec\u00eda a un escarabajo de hoja con patas de rana desconocido, descubriendo as\u00ed a la nueva especie, de acuerdo a su investigaci\u00f3n&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/epdf\/10.1002\/spp2.1398\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">publicada<\/a>&nbsp;recientemente en Papers in Paleontology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/actualidad\/public_images\/2021.08\/thumbnail\/6112a18559bf5b195104c2bc.jpg\" alt=\"Impresi\u00f3n art\u00edstica de Thapunngaka shawi.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/actualidad.rt.com\/actualidad\/400336-fosil-pterosaurio-australia-nueva-especie\">\u00abUn drag\u00f3n de la vida real\u00bb: un pterosaurio de 40 afilados dientes, el m\u00e1s grande encontrado en Australia, resulta ser una especie nueva<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00abSe trata de uno de los f\u00f3siles de escarabajo m\u00e1s magn\u00edficos jam\u00e1s encontrados [\u2026] Los dibujos se conservan con una claridad y un contraste insuperables, lo que lo convierte en uno de los f\u00f3siles de escarabajo mejor conservados. Definitivamente merece su nombre\u00bb, que se traduce como &#8216;belleza de Attenborough&#8217;, coment\u00f3 Vitali.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seg\u00fan los autores, a pesar de que los escarabajos son robustos y cuentan con un exoesqueleto de gran dureza, no se fosilizan f\u00e1cilmente y suelen deshacerse en el sedimento, por lo que\u00a0en general \u00fanicamente se encuentran restos de alas individuales, motivo por el cual hallar uno en tan buen estado es algo extraordinario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fuente: https:\/\/actualidad.rt.com\/actualidad\/400935-identifican-especie-escarabajo-49-millones-anos-fosiles-maravilloso-hallado<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pesar de que el artr\u00f3podo ha formado parte de la exhibici\u00f3n &#8216;Viaje prehist\u00f3rico&#8217; del Museo de Naturaleza y Ciencia 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