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Amaral added that the larva probably swam and breathed just as mosquitoes do today. Before this find, the oldest mosquito fossils were adults of roughly the same age, but their immature stages were ...

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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”.

Until now only fossils of adult mosquitoes had been found, so to have found a larva - the young that has hatched from an egg - is something the research team are excited about. Finding this mosquito ...