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Fungus gnat entombed in a 40-million-year-old piece of amber is a rare gem
This confirmed that the piece is from Baltic amber. Thereafter, they examined the fossil and determined the species of insect. This part of the process took place by closely studying the males ...
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Larvae eyes trapped in 100-million-year-old amber reveal high-resolution vision
During the age of dinosaurs, small predators with unexpectedly advanced eyes hunted in the darkness roughly 100 million years ...
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Ancient fossils reveal oldest known insect larval eyes with sharp vision
Scientists have discovered the oldest fossil evidence of insect larvae with highly developed eyes, revealing that some ...
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Fossilized Beetle Is Earliest Evidence of Insect Pollinator
The discovery, published today (August 16) in Current Biology, of a beetle fossilized in Burmese amber together with grains of cycad pollen reveals that the relationship between these plants and ...