Long before the common bed bug terrorized apartments and ruined perfectly good sheets, their relatives were wreaking havoc in caves.
A site in southern Oregon, which contains some of North America's oldest preserved evidence of human activity, was also once home to the bed bug's not-too-distant cousins, archeologists found.
Remains in caves near Paisley, Oregon, are likely the oldest specimens ever found from the genus Cimex. The insects range between 5,100 and 11,000 years old, according to an upcoming study in the Entomological Society of America's Journal of Medical Entomology.
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