These tiny, short-lived gnats the may have been around 247 million years, making them older than the earliest dinosaurs.
, the gnat larva representing the oldest-known diptera, 247 million years old, found in Mallorca, Spain.“While I was inspecting it under the microscope, I put a drop of alcohol on it to increase the contrast of the structures,” says study author Enrique Peñalver, a scientist from the Spanish National Research Council at the Spanish Geological Survey,.
But beyond just revealing what a baby gnat looked like at the time, the existence of this fossil shows the insect’s remarkable ability to adapt to what Oxford University Museum of Natural History’s Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente called a “post apocalyptic environment.”
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