5+ Mosquito's In Fossil Burmese Amber

Age: 100 million years ago, during the latest Albian to earliest Cenomanian ages of the mid-Cretaceous period

Found: Hukawng Valley, northern Myanmar

Species: Mosquito (diptera)

Weight: 1.24G

Size: 1.75 cm long

Burmese Amber The amber is of significant palaeontologist interest due to the diversity of flora and fauna contained as inclusions, particularly arthropods including insects and arachnids but also birds, lizards, snakes, frogs and fragmentary dinosaur remains.