title: Unearthing the secrets of ancient immature insects.
abstract: Jurassic fossils of a bizarre fly larva that lived in water as a blood-sucking parasite highlight how much can be learnt from the study of the fossils of immature insects.
authors: Enrique Peñalver is at the Museo Geominero, Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Madrid, Spain e.penalver@igme.es.
authors: Enrique
authors: E
authors: Peñalver
authors: Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente is at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States perezdelafuente@fas.harvard.edu.
authors: Ricardo
authors: R
authors: Pérez-de la Fuente
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D004175:Diptera / Q000502:physiology*; D007814:Larva / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: China; Diptera; Jurassic; fossil