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

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

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

A mosquito larva entombed in amber for about 99 million years is now the oldest known of its kind, according to a new study. The fossil comes from Kachin in northern Myanmar and likely formed when ...

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The fossil, called Cretosabethes primaevus, shared traits with modern mosquitoes. Scientists think it lived in small water ...