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Close In Germany, at a UNESCO World Heritage site in old lake sediments of the Messel Pit, Researchers have discovered a previously unknown skeleton of a fossil fly species. In the tummy of the fossil fly, various plant pollen could be seen which gives exceptional insights into the behavior of their feeding, the duty of the fly as a pollinator, and their ecology. (Photo : Egor Kamelev) The Skeleton Pollen   The attention of the researchers was not caught by the fly itself, but its big belly s...

Larvae devour their host from the inside the behavior has been around for over thirty million years as shown by this specimen found in a fossil fly. the ancient fossils are being studied at the karlsruhe institute of technology each individual pupil was put into a special holder they were examined using radiation from the institutes synchrotron source its a one hundred ten metre long storage ring in which electrons are accelerated leading to the emission of high intensity x. rays that can be use...