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Unearthing the secrets of ancient immature insects

Enrique Peñalver1, Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente2

  • 1Enrique Peñalver is at the Museo Geominero, Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Madrid, Spain e.penalver@igme.es.

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Jurassic fossils of a bizarre fly larva that lived in water as a blood-sucking parasite highlight how much can be learnt from the study of the fossils of immature insects.

Keywords:
ChinaDipteraJurassicfossil

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