A SCIENTIFIC TRIBUTE TO THE ROLLING STONES: ANCIENT “ROLLING STONEFLIES” IN BURMESE AMBER DISCOVERED
As an ultimate homage to his favourite band, a German researcher named an entire fossil stonefly family after the Rolling Stones and seven ancient stonefly species after each member of the band.
Dr. Arnold Staniczek is biologist and senior researcher at Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History. Not only he is interested in insects, but also a long time hardcore fan of the Rolling Stones. During a collaborative project on fossil stoneflies, he persuaded his colleagues to name their newly discovered ancient stonefly family after the Rolling Stones and seven fossil species after each present and past member of the band.
“Burmese amber is about 100 million years old and thus one of the oldest resins - and stoneflies are one of the oldest lineages of winged insects”, Dr.
Staniczek says. “What lies closer at hand than to link fossil stoneflies in ancient stones with the Rolling Stones and to name newly discovered species after the members of the oldest and greatest Rock’n Roll band in the world”.
In doing so, Dr Staniczek said: “I want to thank the Rolling Stones for the soundtrack of my life and commemorate the attendance of my 20th Rolling Stones concert in Stuttgart, Germany on June 30th, 2018.”
The discovery of these “Rolling Stoneflies” is not only a gimmick, Dr. Staniczek reassures. “These fossil insects considerably enhance our knowledge of the life in Cretaceous amber forests and also shine a light on the evolution of stoneflies.”
“Should Mick or Keith want to have a look at the species named after them, they are more than welcome to stop by at our museum”, Dr. Staniczek invites the
British rock legends. All concertgoers may also pay a visit to the Stuttgart Paleontological Museum am Löwentor, because all the specimens will be on public
display between 22-30 June, when the Rolling Stones will play Berlin and Stuttgart.

Stuttgart Natural History Museum Homepage

mickjaggeri looks a little squashed

question is. did the band form before or after the fossils formed.

I'll give it 9.8 out of 10.

This otherwise rather neat homage omits Stu - which wouldn't have happened if Dr. Arnold Staniczek was a REAL fan.

Wait until the mainstream media pick up on this. The jokes will be endless....

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Keef so tidy while both Mick's live in a mess …..



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Cool!
I was a coleague of Arnold for a short while at the entomology department of the natural history museum in Stuttgart.
A huge Genesis fan, he said the Stones are fossils



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Very cool !

Merijn, is this you? Your contribution almost counts as defamation . If 2 attended Genesis concerts qualify for "huge Genesis fan", so what do 19 attended Stones concerts qualify for?



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CaptainCorella
I'll give it 9.8 out of 10.

This otherwise rather neat homage omits Stu - which wouldn't have happened if Dr. Arnold Staniczek was a REAL fan.

Wait until the mainstream media pick up on this. The jokes will be endless....

Do you think there are endless numbers of undescribed fossil species around? :-)

But yes, and what about Nicky Hopkins, Marianne Faithful, and Jim Callaghan?

That is most awesome from a "TRUE ROLLING STONES FAN" bravo !!!

I love it!

And I hope Mick and Keith will get the info!

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Jos
mickjaggeri looks a little squashed

Shattered I would say

toorude, how old are they?



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98.79 +/- 0.62 mya, so approx. 100 million years old.... Cretaceous!



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The Spider And The Fly -

Gorgeous Jerry Hall celebrating her birthday yesterday with a large amber brooch
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how much does it cost to see them?

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toorude
Merijn, is this you? Your contribution almost counts as defamation . If 2 attended Genesis concerts qualify for "huge Genesis fan", so what do 19 attended Stones concerts qualify for?

hahaha, cool. Dachte schon das du "too rude" bist Hörst du mein Rudi-Carrell-Accent noch? Haha.
At that time it was 2007, overshadowed by Genesis' tour.
Very cool, the fossil Stoneflies, and what you did with it.
Really appreciated the time in Stuttgart!

Liebe Grüsse aus Brandenburg,
Merijn

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how much does it cost to see them?

5€ entrance fee, Wednesday afternoon free entrance.... should be worth it :-)

Mick Taylor is quite hefty compared to the others!

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Thanks for posting this information on IORR. I went to see the Rolling Stoneflies after the Stuttgart concert and indeed thought it was worth it. This interesting collection of fossils is also very nicely presented with good illumination and magnifying glasses over some of the smaller flies. It is placed in a prominent position close to the entrance, with a poster explaining the background and details, for those interested. Clearly, a dedicated fan (and expert fossil entomologist) was at work here. I think it's a great way to "immortalise" The Rolling Stones. Could you post again in this thread when the paper describing the Rolling Stoneflies is published? I hope it will be accessible.
The museum itself is also nice with plenty of dinosaur skeletons, other fossils and reconstructions. I even bought a couple of interesting books there.
Looking at the choice of names, I cannot help but feel that Mick Jagger is not the discoverers’ favourite band member ;-). As for Keith’s fly, I found the following picture on the internet quite apt and funny, but I didn't see it in the Museum:
[www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de]

The scientific contribution will hopefully be published by July 26th.... it will be publically accessible, and I will post the link here, of course.

The picture in the newspaper was taken at the press conference, where the similarities between the embedded fossil and Keith's posture was pointed out :-)

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toorude
The scientific contribution will hopefully be published by July 26th....

Was that meant as a birthday present for Mick? He may not be amused when he sees "his" fly, though
I will be looking forward to the publication. I hope you enjoyed the fantastic show in Stuttgart as much as I did!

He left out the ianstewarti...

...or were there just not enough fossil species found?

Like Keith said, it's stu(i)'s band.

The paper was published on Mick's 75th birthday:

[peerj.com]

This is the download link to the scientific paper, it's open access and thus publicly available:

[peerj.com]

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toorude
The paper was published on Mick's 75th birthday:

[peerj.com]

This is the download link to the scientific paper, it's open access and thus publicly available:

[peerj.com]

Arnold, great work. I hope Mick and the band will see and read this.

Thanks a lot for posting the links here and for publishing the paper open access. I just downloaded the high resolution version, it looks great. Congratulations on the good work and the great tribute to the Stones!

This is pretty inspiring. I'm going to name some of my hairs after them.

very nice article

At least Bill is mentioning it. Congratulations, Arnold:

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