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Prior to 300 million years ago the area had experienced a massive plant extinction. Easterday believes that fossils from the area may reveal how animals responded to the rapid climate change and which species survived the extinction.
Easterday's cockroach findings were reported at the recent annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Boston.
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