Researchers Discover 165 Million Year Old Parasite

From the University of Bonn and China, researchers have come across around 165 million years old fossil fly larva with an amazing sucking tool. The parasite, an elongate fly larva around two centimeters long, had undergone extreme changes over the course of evolution: The head is tiny in comparison to the body, tube-shaped with piercer-like mouthparts at the front. The mid-body (thorax) has been completely transformed underneath into a gigantic sucking plate; the ...