By Jim Leffman The world’s oldest gnat, dating back 247 million years, has been discovered in Mallorca, Spain. The beautifully preserved larva fossil, just a few million years after the planet’s largest extinction, was found in cliff-face rock on the beach, according to the study in Papers in Palaeontology. Protoanisolarva juarezi, the gnat larva representing the oldest known diptera, 247 […]

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