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 “excellently preserved” fossil from the Cretaceous era, dating back 99 million years, comes from the Kachin region in Myanmar and can shed more light on the evolution of the insect. It represents the first mosquito larva preserved in amber from this time, as only fossils of adult mosquitoes had previously been found, according to a new study.
