Blood sucking activity was not carried by mosquitoes on the present course . In fact , during the prehistoric mosquitoes suck blood as well as a part of his life .
As reported by The Verge ( 15/10 ) , researchers from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History says that they have found the fossil of a 46 million -year -old mosquito ago . Surprisingly, the fossil is known that the mosquitoes were killed with the condition keep sucking the blood results .
To prove that the mosquito does contain blood , the researchers then tried to check the iron content in the stomach . It turns out , it is known that the iron content is very high than it should be there .
Itself has not been known until now what works creatures blood sucked by mosquitoes . However , it is clear that mosquitoes have evolved to suck blood .
Evidently, the form mosquitoes from the same prehistoric mosquitoes at this time . Either in the mouth or do you eat , estimated mosquitoes at that time was no different than the current mosquito .
This fossil was found in a lake in Montana . Possibility , the mosquitoes die drowning in the lake and then frozen due to sediment in the bottom of the lake .
Indeed, many are expecting the blood used as plant material such as dinosaurs in the film Jurassic Park . However , the researchers were convinced that DNA would not survive that period despite the form of fossils .
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