Researchers uncover world's oldest fossil impression of a flying insect

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 13:28 in Paleontology & Archaeology

While paleontologists may scour remote, exotic places in search of prehistoric specimens, Tufts researchers have found what they believe to be the world's oldest whole-body fossil impression of a flying insect in a wooded field behind a strip mall in North Attleboro, Mass.

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