A team of Scientists have claimed that they have found a cockroach from the pre-historic times that hunted at night.

The team found cockroach specimen preserved in amber. The specimen, which is 100 million year old, was discovered at a mine in Noije Bum, Myanmar. The creature has an extended neck that allowed it to rotate its head freely possibility for hunting. It had long and lank legs that are also seen in several other predatory insects present today.

The researchers said that they conducted a close analysis of the traditional specimen named Manipulator modificaputis. They found that the insect had a habit of looking for prey at midnight. Experts said that the roaches that are present today are also nocturnal in nature however they ordinarily feed themselves by scavenging from food.

Researchers Peter Vrsansky from the earth science Institute in Bratislava, Slovakia, and Gunter Bechly from the State repository of explanation in Stuttgart, Germany analysed the specimen. They concluded that specimen belongs to the early Cretaceous period that started several predatory cockroach-like lineages but only one of those lineages - the praying mantis survives today. The study was published in detail in the journal GeologicaCarpathica.