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Close A research team led by Simon Fraser University reveals how fossil dragonfly relatives have been misidentified due to their bizarre similarity.  For over 150 years, researchers have been wrongly classifying a group of fossil insects to be damselflies, who are the familiar cousins of dragonflies that bat around wetlands feeding on mosquitoes. While they are strikingly identical, these fossils have strangely shaped heads, which scientists have always assigned to distortion arising as a result of the fossilization process. (Photo : Pixabay) Distinctive Shape of the Insect  Nevertheless, a...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Wing of the new species Okanagrion hobani, from the McAbee fossil site in British Columbia, a damselfly-like insect of the new suborder Cephalozygoptera. view more  Credit: Copyright Zootaxa, used by permission. For more than 150 years, scientists have been incorrectly classifying a group of fossil insects as damselflies, the familiar cousins of dragonflies that flit around wetlands eating mosquitoes. While they are strikingly similar, these fossils have oddly shaped heads, which researchers have always attributed to distortion resulting from the fossilization process. ...