Oct 14, 2013 · Testing shows that a 46 million-year-old fossilized mosquito, found by amateur fossil hunters in Montana, contains the blood of an unknown ancient creature

Oct 14, 2013 · Jurassic Park’s iconic image of a fossilized blood-filled mosquito was thought to be fiction — until now. For the first time, researchers have identified a fossil of a female mosquito …

Dec 8, 2020 · It turns out that mosquitoes do prefer a certain blood type — type O. Scientists do not understand why female mosquitoes prefer blood type O yet, but they’re working on it. At …

Dec 6, 2023 · Researchers found a male mosquito trapped in amber 130 million years ago, the oldest ever discovered. And it could do something no male mosquito alive today can do.

Jul 23, 2020 · Only a few of the more than 3,000 species of mosquito specifically seek out blood from humans — but those few are enough to spread diseases that affect some 100 million …

Jul 1, 2023 · Female mosquitoes require blood from their host for egg development. However, the relationship between the composition of host blood and mosquito reproduction, and whether …

Jul 1, 2024 · Blood meal typing of wild-caught mosquitoes may reveal patterns in mosquito feeding success, whereas other set-ups, including olfactometer studies, can assess mosquito …

Dec 8, 2023 · When you kill a mosquito, the blood inside it is not your own; it is the mosquito’s blood that it had previously ingested from another source. Understanding this process can …

Apr 14, 2016 · With the recent emergence of Zika virus, entomologists say that matching the DNA fingerprint of human blood inside mosquitoes with individuals could help shed light on how …

Oct 14, 2020 · A recent study demonstrates that mosquito brains react to the taste of human blood in strange ways. Some neurons only activated when presented with all four flavor …