New Species Discovered - On eBay!

Cryptozoologists have gone on many long and difficult expeditions to seek out new life, new species. Maybe they could have saved some time by simply going onto an online auction site such as eBay!

The BBC reports that fossil bought on eBay has turned out to be a previously unknown species. The fossilised insect, which had been preserved in amber, was bought by Dr Richard Harrington for just £20. After examination by experts the insect was confirmed as being a new species - now, of course, probably extinct.

OK, so it’s just an aphid, it’s hardly Bigfoot. Yet even a bug can give you a place in history - the new species has been named Mindarus harringtoni.

Topic Tag: Cryptozoology