The Natural History Museum of Denmark houses a unique collection of 70,000 pieces of amber from various time periods. Surprisingly, while studying this collection, a team of researchers found an amazingly well-preserved fungus gnat inside 40-million-year-old amber. This is the first known fossil of Robsonomyia henningseni, a “rare and never-before-studied species” of gnat. According to the researchers, this ancient insect is a missing link between two living gnat species found in Japan and the United States, separated by an ocean and a distance of nearly 8,000 kilometers. “This geographical se…
