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99-Million-Year-Old Amber Preserves Earliest-Known Mosquito Larva

The new fossil, encased in a piece of amber from the Kachin region of Myanmar, represents both the first mosquito larva preserved in amber and the first immature mosquito from the Mesozoic Era, named as a new genus and species Cretosabethes primaevus.

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