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Next time you swat that mozzie think about this amazing piece of archeological news. A 46-million year old blood-filled mosquito fossil has been unearthed in a shale deposit in Montana in the US.
What animal this female mosquito was feeding on can’t be determined as the DNA in the blood has long since degraded, but as the blood contained iron and porphyrin, which are constituents of haemoglobin, it was a vertebrate animal.
The findings of a team from the US National Museum of Natural History in Washington reported the fossil discover in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Here’s a link to a summary.
