http://smithsonianscience.org/2013/01/discovery-of-prehistoric-mosquito-species-reveal-these-blood-suckers-have-changed-little-in-46-million-years/ News about the Smithsonian’s research in the fields of anthropology, astrophysics, conservation biology, geology, materials science, paleontology, zoology, and global climate change. Mon, 08 Dec 2014 08:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 http://smithsonianscience.org/2013/01/discovery-of-prehistoric-mosquito-species-reveal-these-blood-suckers-have-changed-little-in-46-million-years/#comment-23668 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 13:54:00 +0000 http://smithsonianscience.org/?p=23185#comment-23668 Are these fossils from the Green River Formation? I’ve found numerous insect fossils in the GRF in NE Utah. They apparently drowned on the surface of the water as many have their wings outstretched. The preservation is amazing: ven
ation in the wings, compound eyes, etc. I’ve wondered at the depostion process myself. (I’m a geo-archaeologist.)

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