What is the Oldest Insect Fossil?
The oldest identifiable insect fossil is a 390-million year old bristletail, a primitive wingless insect from the order Thysanura found in Quebec, Canada. The insect fossil is remarkably similar to modern-day silverfish. The first flights on earth were undoubtedly made by insects! Did Butterflies Live During the Era of the Dinosaurs? Fossils of butterflies are rare with the earliest butterfly fossils from the early Cretaceous period, about 130 million years ago. The development of the butterfly species is closely linked to the evolution of flowering plants (angiosperms) since both adult butterflies and caterpillars feed on flowering plants, and the adults are important pollinators to flowers. What was the Biggest Insect Ever? Fossils of a prehistoric dragonfly (Meganeura monyi) in the order Protodonata makes it the largest insect ever to be found with a full wingspan of 30 inches and a body length of 18 inches. The Meganeura dragonfly lived about 250 million years ago until it became e
