Perfectly Preserved 100 Million Year Old Assassin Found

Assassin fly that is...

Finding ancient bugs trapped in amber is hardly new, but this Cretaceous-era assassin fly may be the most pristine three-dimensional preservation of an insect we've ever seen.

The amber fossil was discovered by Torsten Dikow from the National Museum of Natural History. It's a newly recorded species of assassin fly called Burmapogon brucksch, an insect that terrorized the Cretaceous some 100 million years ago. They're called assassin flies because of their fierce predation strategy; they ambush and catch their prey in flight, puncture their armour, and inject them with digestive fluids before extracting the nutrients.

This Exquisitely-Preserved 100 Million-Year-Old Fly Is Just Ridiculous

Aaaaah, I see what you did therE.

@psychogeist: Hey I didn't lie :p

You got me all excited.

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You bully.

Hehe. Now I'm picturing one of those 'Evolution of man' images, y'know, with the progress of evolution from water based scum to modern people? Only starting from this bug, and going through Altair, to Ezio, to Connor, to Desmond. Altair'd be crouched, Ezio would be standing, Connor would be running hidden blade out, and Desmond would be leaping into an assassination.

If someone could photoshop this that would be great.

@jonny_anonymous:

Don't be a Geist.

Lol, jk.

@deathstrokergeist: hey I legit thought this was interesting

@jonny_anonymous:

That's what the Geists say.... -_-

Lmao.

:(

You got jokes

Awwwwwww.....I came here all excited and shit.

Jurassic park comes to mind.

Joke or not, this is really interesting.

Son of a b!tch!!! The second I see the fly I think Jurasic Park so I scroll down the comments and it's already been posted lol.

HAHA..