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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 ...

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”.

The Natural History Museum of Denmark houses a unique collection of 70,000 pieces of amber from various time periods.

Around 99 million years ago, some insects got trapped in tree sap that later fossilized to form what we call amber. Sounds miserable, right? But these insects had already met a far grimmer fate before ...

According to Illustreret Videnskab (Science Illustrated), researchers examining a piece of 99-million-year-old Burmese amber have identified the oldest known mosquito larva — and its anatomy is far ...

“[The paper] shows that details of a blood sucking mosquito can be nicely preserved in a medium other than amber,” paleontologist George Poinar of Oregon State University, who was not involved in this ...