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99-million-yr-old insect found, named after Teletubbies character 'Noo-Noo'

short by Ishita Ranganath / on Tuesday, 6 October, 2026
Scientists at Israel's Steinhardt Museum of Natural History discovered a new dinosaur-era insect species that lived 99 million years ago, preserved in tree resin that hardened into amber. Researchers named it Cretodorus noonoo, or 'Noo-Noo', after a vacuum cleaner from the children's TV show 'Teletubbies'. Noo-Noo belonged to an ancient family of planthoppers known as the Neazoniidae.
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