Horny Damselfly Strikes a Sexy Pose for Eternity
Image: D. Zheng et al., 2017
This male damselfly, caught inside 100-million-year-old Burmese amber, was trying to court a female when nature had other plans. At his moment of death, the damselfly had assumed a special pose in which he could show off his exaggerated forearms and hindlegs, in what the scientists called an extreme example of sexual display.
