What do you call a mosquito on vacation? An itch-hiker.

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Fun Fact of the Week,



A mosquito embedded in Amber. Not the mosquito in question.
Image for illustration purpose only. RomanVX/Shutterstock

Your backyard mosquitoes are from the insect family Culicida. The earliest known little bugger that fits the descriptions of this family is dated back to 10 MILLIONS YEARS ago! Its fossil was identified in one of the Burmese amber at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, in 2004.

And no, there is no report of dinosaur generated from this specimen....or is there?

 Full descriptions of this specimen here

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