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Here’s a direct link to the journal article.

Summary: phylogenomic study found that Hexapoda (insects, springtails, headcones) is a sister clade to Remipedia (venomous, cave-dwelling “crustaceans”). So it’s basically the same that happened with birds and dinos, except with bugs.

  • Lvxferre [he/him]OP
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    3 days ago

    More like bugs are shrimps. Like, some shrimps are closer to bugs than to other shrimps.

    (…wait, does this mean that insects can undergo carcinisation? It would be cool to see.)