Prehistoric insects trapped in amber give ‘little windows’ into ancient life on Earth - For the first time, scientists have ...

The new fossil, encased in a piece of amber from the Kachin region of Myanmar, represents both the first mosquito larva preserved in amber and the first immature mosquito from the Mesozoic Era, named ...

When we think of pollinating insects, bees, butterflies, or flies usually come to mind — but rarely true bugs. Yet it seems that in the past, they also played an important role in plant pollination. A ...

A mosquito larva fossil thought to be the world's oldest has been found by scientists, who think it could be around 99 ...

The fossil was uncovered in Myanmar’s Kachin region and has been identified as a new species named Cretosabethes primaevus.

World’s earliest known mosquito larva found trapped in 99-million-year-old amber - Finding indicates extinct forms of ...

You know the drill: An ancient bug is minding its own business, munching some leaves, buzzin’ some dinos’, when all of a sudden he’s sucked up into a ball of tree resin and winds up in a 21st century ...

Fungi bursts from the head of a fly fossilized in 99-million-year-old amber. © Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, NIGPAS In ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A chunk of amber found along the Baltic Sea in Russia provides evidence roughly 50 million years old of an extremely fortunate bug. An Oregon State University scientist on ...