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	Gladius (video game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The game allows the player to build a school of gladiators and take them into battle against opposing schools in a quest for fame and glory.
		The gladiators have the opportunity to travel through four distinctly different regions on their road to the ultimate championship.
		It is a place very close to Egypt (the main insects of this region are beetles, which held a high importance in Egyptian mythology, and scorpions, a staple arachnid in any desert region.) The conclusion of the game takes place in and around the large central arena of Caltha in the Imperial Region.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gladius_(video_game) (525 words)

	www.cliffordcroft.com free ebook
		The Insect took another step forward, and- no one in the arena could see it, because it was so fast, but the Silencer doubled back, lunged and stabbed the Insect in the chitlins deep with the blade before anyone, including the Insect, could even blink.
		The gladiator gave a hoarse scream as the Silencer tugged on the stick, causing the curved blade to sink deeper into the gladiator, pulling it down to the ground.
		But as the Insects expanded their numbers he found himself pushed to the periphery of the western continent, which is why he happened to be there.
	www.cliffordcroft.com /deathinsectoids.html (22458 words)

	New Insect Order Found in Southern Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Dubbed "the gladiator" (for the recent movie), the new insect is described as a cross between a stick insect, a mantid, and a grasshopper.
		Dubbed "the gladiator" (for the recent movie), it lives in the Brandberg Mountains of Namibia, on the west coast of Southern Africa.
		Insects are one class within the Animal kingdom; class Insecta, as it is known, is further divided into Orders.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2002/03/0328_0328_TVstickinsect.html (600 words)

	Gladiators Latin Latin gladiatores were professional fighters in ancient Rome...
		A trainer of gladiators or the manager of a team of gladiators was known as a lanista lanista.
		Gladiators who managed to win their freedom - often by request of the audience or sponsor - were given a wooden sword as a memento.
		Gladiators are sometimes mentioned in science fiction science fiction, being depicted in the film "The Running Man The Running Man"; as well as the games "Battletech Battletech", "Quake Quake", and "Unreal Unreal".
	www.biodatabase.de /Gladiator (1346 words)

	News - Glencoe Science Biology: An Everyday Experience
		Gladiators are not like stick insects because their first body segments are the largest of their bodies.
		Gladiator insects are as large as 4 centimeters and are nocturnal carnivores.
		Because the initial investigation of the potential discovery and identification of a new order of insects began in the laboratory with the study of preserved specimens, scientists were then able to go into the field to find live specimens to prove their hypotheses.
	glencoe.com /sec/science/biology/bee/updates/news.php?iRef=84&...&book= (679 words)

	Scientific American: Gladiators: A New Order of Insect
		Although we suspect that the gladiators share a common ancestor with the mantids and stick insects, it will take more work to establish their exact position within the evolutionary tree of insect life.
		A dozen gladiators were captured alive and taken to Germany, where we have been studying their biology.
		Gladiators are carnivorous, and they eat a variety of other insects, some as large as themselves.
	www.sciam.com /print_version.cfm?articleID=000C4A73-7799-1D9B-815A809EC5880000 (1876 words)

	Mantophasmatodea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mantophasmatodea is an order of carnivorous insects discovered in 2002, the first new insect order to be described since 1914.
		The common name for this order is Gladiators, although they are also called Mantophasmids, Mantos and Heelwalkers.
		The authors of the paper describing the new order note that "it cannot at present be categorically excluded" that the two Mantophasma specimens are of the same species, with the size difference reflecting sexual dimorphism, but they consider this unlikely, because of the wide geographical separation of the specimens.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mantophasmatodea (259 words)

	Gladiator National Museum Namibia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Oliver Zompro, a doctoral student at the Max-Planck-Institute for Limnology in Plï¿½, Germany, discovered this life form in a 45-million-year-old piece of amber and other pieces of amber from various European museums, and later found that it may still be extant as various museums had species collected during the 20th century.
		Cuticular remains of other insects were found in the intestines of this female, which, as in the case of the species conserved in amber, indicate a predatory diet.
		The main aims of the envisaged research are to study the biology, ecology, occurrence, genetics, evolution and in particular the protection of the insects.
	www.imnetz.org /martin/?Gladiator+National+Museum+Namibia (1520 words)

	Entomologists amazed by new insect order from Namaqualand
		The formal description by entomologists of the fairly large, wingless creatures, which to the untrained eye resembles a cross between a grasshopper and a praying mantis, is the first description of an insect order since the discovery of ice crawlers (Grylloblattodea) in 1914, almost a century ago.
		Small and bandy-legged, the wingless insects from the new order are aggressive carnivores, leaping on their prey and subduing them with their spiny legs.
		Though scientists have found the insects embedded in Baltic amber, suggesting that they existed around 40 to 50 million years ago in Europe, the new order appears to be restricted to southern Africa in present times.
	www.scienceinafrica.co.za /2002/october/insect.htm (680 words)

	Insect Orders
		he concept of "insect orders" is important for us backyard naturalists because all the world's many thousands of insect species can be pigeon-holed in them, and there is such a small number of orders -- maybe 25 to 35, depending on your expert -- that our brains can deal with that number.
		Even more mind-expanding is the fact that always, once you've studied what seems to be the insects' weirdness, their cruelty, or even their profound stupidity, you come to see that their manner of being is actually an exquisite adaptation to the ecological niche they occupy.
		A good way to begin the insect-learning process is to print up our "Key to the Big Ten Insect Orders," go outside with your hand lens, and see if you can assign some insects to their orders.
	www.backyardnature.net /insects.htm (459 words)

	News in Science - The Wollemi Pine of the insect world - 19/04/2002
		Welcome to Mantophasmatodea — a new insect from tropical Africa that resembles a mix between a praying mantis and a stick insect, but can't be placed in any existing insect order.
		He found they were all structurally different from stick insects and their stomachs were full of insect parts, whereas stick insects are herbivores.
		Each year numerous new species of insects are found and categorised but the last time a new order was discovered was in 1914.
	www.abc.net.au /science/news/stories/s535354.htm (505 words)

	28/3/2002 -- New Insect Order Found in Southern Africa
		Zompro, a specialist in stick insects, was studying a group of fossils sent to him by various collectors when he began to suspect he was seeing a new type of insect.
		The oldest known specimen of the newly identified insect was encased in a 40-million-year-old chunk of golden amber.
		Both of the insects Zompro observed in London and Berlin appeared related to the 40-million-year-old fossilized insect encased in amber.
	forests.org /articles/reader.asp?linkid=9451 (1103 words)

	Insects in Kansas
		The pupa is a resting stage where the body of the insect is transformed into the adult.
		Insects with gradual metamorphosis include: true bugs, roaches, cicadas, leafhoppers, lice, termites, mantids, earwigs, crickets, grasshoppers and walking sticks.
		Insects are the most successful type of creature on Earth.
	www.gpnc.org /insects.htm (650 words)

	Sungaya.de - Mantophasmatodea - The discovery
		During the expedition of an international entomologist group from Germany, England, South Africa, Namibia and the USA to the Brandberg mountain in Namibia, the predatory animals were discovered: they appear to be something like a mixture between a stick insect and a preying mantis and have been given the provisional name "Gladiator".
		The new insect order will be presented in the 18th April 2002 edition of Science.
		Insects, (Latin insectum, literally "segmented animal"), with over 1.2 million known species, represent over 80 % of all living animals on earth.
	www.sungaya.de /oz/gladiator/entdeckungGB.htm (842 words)

	The Namibian \| Local News \| Second 'Gladiator' found in Nam
		Evidence of the previously unclassified insect was first seen preserved in a piece of 45-million-year-old amber and it was thought to be extinct.
		Subsequent research by scientist Oliver Zompro of the Max Planck Institute of Limnology in Germany led to the identification of the same insect in a museum collection in Germany and at the Namibian National Museum in Windhoek.
		While an official press release from the Max Planck Institute in Germany says: "The 'Gladiators' collected in the region around the Brandberg are now in the climate chambers of the Max Planck Institute for Limnology" for study purposes, Irish said all these live specimens have since died.
	www.namibian.com.na /2002/april/news/025779AE10.html (609 words)

	‘Living fossil’ insect found in Namibia -DAWN - International; March 21, 2002
		The insect, nicknamed “gladiator,” is so exceptional that entomologists said they would have to place it in a new order of classification, the first time this has happened in 87 years.
		Marais said the discovery of the insect was totally unexpected, as it was first noted as being fossilised in amber and was thought to be extinct.
		Marais said the insect, which looks like a cross between a cricket, a stick insect and a praying mantis, was nocturnal and a predator.
	www.dawn.com /2002/03/21/int3.htm (392 words)

	SABCnews.com - sci_tech/science
		Day long searches in the arid area did not produce the insect, but several hours into the night, after using light traps and beating the bush, the scientists spotted the insect.
		The insect is a young specimen of an insect known as the Gladiator, a name the scientists adopted during the search.
		The cricket-like insect, known as the Grylloblattodea, is generally found above the snow line on very high mountains in North America, Europe, and the Far East.
	www.sabcnews.com /sci_tech/science/0,2172,31084,00.html (376 words)

	Mantophasmatodea Insect Fossils Gallery - Gladiator
		The Mantophasmatodea's relation to other insects is uncertain, but current conjecture is that it is most closely related to Phasmida (stick insects) and the Grylloblattodea.
		Now called the "Gladiator" (as well as Mantophasmids, Mantos and Heelwalkers), it reaches up to four centimeters (1.6 inches) in length, is carnivorous and nocturnal and lives at the base of clumps of grass that grow in rock crevices.
		Gladiator, and its DNA, will provide more pieces to the puzzle of the tree-of-life that remains very incomplete for insects.
	www.fossilmuseum.net /Fossil_Galleries/Insect_Galleries_by_Order/Mantophasmatodea/Mantophasmatodea.htm (247 words)

	Carte Blanche
		“I recognised the insects and was very familiar with them, doing research in Namaqualand having come across them for many years, and suddenly here they were and people had put them into their correct perspective,” he says.
		Mike had encountered these insects previously, but had thought that they were some weird type of cricket or another species.
		“The insects are perfectly preserved because unlike most fossilisation methods, the amber excludes oxygen and there’s no decay and it’s just as easy to examine details in their fossils as it its when looking at living specimens,” says Mike.
	www.carteblanche.co.za /display/Display.asp?Id=2090 (936 words)

	Science News
		Insect specimens that have puzzled museum curators for decades turn out to represent a lineage so odd that scientists have named a new order just for them, the first one created in 87 years.
		Female gladiator collected in Namibia, Mantophasma zephyra, gets a name after almost a century in a museum collection.
		Unlike the plant-eating stick insects, the gladiators prey on other insects.
	www.phschool.com /science/science_news/articles/whazzits_insect_order.html (354 words)

	Max-Planck doctoral student discovers 'living fossils' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Joachim Adis), discovered several animals which could not be allocated to any known insect order, as well as a new family of stick insect (Archipseudophasmatidae) when examining a 45-million-year-old piece of Baltic amber last year.
		The main aims of the research are to study the biology, ecology, occurrence, genetics, evolution and in particular the protection of the insects.
		The "Gladiators" collected in the region around the Brandberg are now in the climate chambers of the Max-Planck-Institute for Limnology.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2002-04/m-mds041702.php (1343 words)

	Awesome Library - Science
		Provides a history of beliefs about insects, as well as their impact on society.
		Describes each of the 32 orders of insects and provides pictures of insects that are examples of each order.
		Provides insect records, such as for the fastest, longest, heaviest, smallest, largest, loudest, most resistant to insecticides, and more.
	www.awesomelibrary.org /Classroom/Science/Biology/Insects.html (642 words)

	ANIMAL DEFENCE SOCIETY OF TORONTO
		A new insect order was last discovered in 1915 when another cricket-like insect was found to occur above the snow line on very high mountains in North America, Europe and in Asia.
		Some insects will have to be killed to obtain specimens for the proper description of the species.
		However, it seems to be a problem to feed the insects that will be transported to Germany.
	www.animaldst.esmartweb.com /newsworld.html (336 words)

	PERT Postdoctoral Program
		I was a member of the Whiting lab and my research there focused on the phylogeny of the lower neopterous insects, sometimes referred to as ‘Polyneoptera’ or the ‘Orthopteroid’ insects, and had three main parts:
		Plecoptera, or stoneflies as they are commonly called, are aquatic insects and spend most of their life in streams and rivers.
		They are most diverse in mountainous areas with a variety of types of running water and in these areas they can be found everywhere from the smallest seeps to the largest rivers.
	cis.arl.arizona.edu /PERT/people/Terry (333 words)

	Television Without Pity The Spoils (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The younger gladiator begins laughing at Pullo as well, because we were starting to like that one a little bit and we're going to have to lose sympathy for him in a fast hurry, for reasons that are about to become abundantly apparent.
		The youngest gladiator, on Pullo's right, tries to strike a compromise: "Look, just hold your sword...You don't have to run about or anything." The leader calls Pullo a "bloody Mollie," as are the whole Thirteenth Legion.
		The crowd laughs, and the gladiators start getting into it, which is such a mistake.
	www.televisionwithoutpity.com /story.cgi?show=152&story=8539&page=11&sort=&limit= (604 words)

	Gladiator in the Fish River
		Insects that made headlines all over the world four years ago when they were discovered on the Brandberg are also found at the Fish River Canyon!
		Living specimens of this predatory insect, nicknamed gladiator, were first discovered in 2001 on the Brandberg mountain in north-western Namibia.
		Slides of the gladiator and the expedition were shown at the Habitat Research and Development Center (HRDC) in Katutura on Friday evening, and EduVentures rewarded participants of the expedition for commitment and motivation during an award ceremony.
	www.travelnews.com.na /index.php?fArticleId=887 (561 words)

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	Gladiator—an ‘extinct’ insect is found alive
		Extraordinarily, insects earlier thought to have been extinct for millions of years have been found thriving on a stony mountain top in Namibia.
		Nicknamed ‘Gladiators’ because of their ‘fearsome’ appearance and the armour that covers them as nymphs, the insects were first noted from specimens fossilized in amber (preserved transparent tree resin), ‘dated’ at 45 million years.
		Their placement in a new insect order has been questioned by some entomologists, but others respond that they do not fit into any other order. Mantophasmatodea: A new insect order?, Science 297(5582):731, 2002.
	www.answersingenesis.org /creation/v25/i2/gladiator.asp (831 words)

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