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Scientists studying bedbugs have uncovered a surprising fact: They've been around a lot longer than we think.

For a long time, we've thought of bats as the first hosts for bedbugs, which would place the earliest evolution of bedbugs at about 50 million years ago. But as it turns out, they've lived for something closer to 100 million years, as a study unexpectedly found out.

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Shivani is the editorial assistant at TheWeek.com and has previously written for StreetEasy and Mic.com. A graduate of the physics and journalism departments at NYU, Shivani currently lives in Brooklyn and spends free time cooking, watching TV, and taking too many selfies.