99-Million-Year-Old Amber Preserves Earliest-Known Mosquito Larva

Oct 28, 2025 - 14:15
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99-Million-Year-Old Amber Preserves Earliest-Known Mosquito Larva
Larva of Cretosabethes primaevus. Image credit: Amaral et al., doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2025.09.011.

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 as a new genus and species Cretosabethes primaevus.

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