Palaeontologists unveiled a 99-million-year-old mosquito larva preserved in Burmese amber, the earliest known mosquito fossil and the first immature specimen from the Mesozoic, according to Phys.org.

Researchers from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) identified the larva as a new species and genus, naming it Cretosabethes primaevus. Unlike earlier fossil finds, which often feature ...