The grasshopper is something of a living artifact, it has adapted for modern times but carries valuable information about Earth's past. Not as cool as a dinosaur but still worthy of our attention, says Piotr Naskrecki, a research associate and entomologist at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard.
A photographer, Naskrecki has a whole book of critters and creatures you rarely think twice about. In his book: Relics: Travels in Nature's Time Machine, he writes in the introduction, "Relict organisms, which I prefer to call simply 'relics' ... are often the last carriers of genes that have otherwise disappeared from the world's gene pool."
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