This fossil was find in the sandstones of southern Massachusetts , and is the oldest make out full - body impression of a fly bug . It ’s there on the left field , and you could see the discrete impressions made by its six legs , as it struggle to get off from the mud it got stuck in before being fossilize . take form roughly 300 million old age ago , this cast is the most ancient evidence of the Pterygota subclass of insects , and is thought to be the distant ascendent of the mayfly .
gratefully , it ’s not the enormous worm of television set fable , measure a relatively un - terrific 36 mm in distance .
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