What is the most interesting thing you have discovered in your field of work?

Question: What is the most interesting thing you have discovered in your field of work?
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Asked by Hatty to Nicki on 10 Mar 2015.
- Nicki Whitehouse answered on 10 Mar 2015:
  
  The best thing I ever discovered was a large fossil beetle called Temnochila coerulea; it came from a bog called Thorne Moors and its a species that does not live in Britain any longer. Today it lives in just 1-2 places in the Balkans, in undisturbed forest. It tells us that with the loss of primeval forest that many of our beetles disappeared too. This is a showy purple beetle that is a predator on wood borers. As a predator its often one of the first beasts to go extinct.

Question: What is the most interesting thing you have discovered in your field of work?