According to Illustreret Videnskab (Science Illustrated), researchers examining a piece of 99-million-year-old Burmese amber ...

The world’s oldest known mosquito larva from when the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex roamed the earth has been discovered trapped in a piece of amber in what scientists described as a “rare stroke of luck”.

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A rare fossil find shows how far the origins of extant mosquito species go back. In amber some 99 million years old, LMU researchers have discovered the oldest known mosquito larva. The Cretaceous ...

An array of perfectly preserved insects and even a spider's web, encased in 112-million-year-old amber, have been found in a quarry in the Amazon rainforest. Xavier Delclòs at the University of ...