A 99-million-year-old insect named after a Teletubby's vacuum cleaner

Trapped in amber for 99 million years, a tiny planthopper from Myanmar has been described as a brand-new species: Cretodorus noonoo — nicknamed after Noo-Noo, the Teletubbies' vacuum cleaner, because its mouth was a long, bendy straw nearly twice its body length. Dolev Fabrikant and Leonidas-Romanos Davranoglou at Tel Aviv University scanned the fossil in 3D and found corrugated folds that kept the straw from kinking, letting the insect snake into bark cracks to sip deep tree sap — a trick no living relative can pull off.