A kind of teenager mosquito can suddenly shoot its head forward from its body — stretching its neck into a skinny cord — to bite into another youngster. And that’s just one of the ways young ...

How do mosquito larvae catch their prey? By using their heads. In attacks that are too swift to be seen with the naked eye, predatory aquatic larvae, which measure about 0.75 inch (2 centimeters) long ...

A mosquito larva launches its head to capture prey dangled in front of it. Hancock et al. via Annals of the Entomological Society of America Scientists have long known that predatory mosquito larvae ...

The world’s oldest known mosquito larva from when the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex roamed the earth has been discovered trapped in a piece of amber in what scientists described as a “rare stroke of luck”.

An "excellently preserved" fossil of mosquito larva has been found by scientists in Myanmar, in southeast Asia. It's thought to be from the Cretaceous era, which means it could be around 99 million ...

Until now only fossils of adult mosquitoes had been found, so to have found a larva - the young that has hatched from an egg - is something the research team are excited about. Finding this mosquito ...

A new study shows mosquito larvae feeding in slow motion, under a microscope, for the first time. By Oliver Whang Microcinematography can reveal wonders and horrors in the universe of tiny things ...

A fossilised mosquito larva dating back 99 million years has been discovered trapped in amber, offering an extraordinary look into life during the time of Tyrannosaurus rex. The finding, which ...