World's oldest gnat fossil discovered in Spain | National
The gnat, dating from the early Middle Triassic is older than the earliest dinosaurs and is the oldest dipteran ever found.
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The gnat, dating from the early Middle Triassic is older than the earliest dinosaurs and is the oldest dipteran ever found.
The gnat, dating from the early Middle Triassic is older than the earliest dinosaurs and is the oldest dipteran ever found.
The gnat, dating from the early Middle Triassic is older than the earliest dinosaurs and is the oldest dipteran ever found.
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