Tufts geology major Richard J. Knecht holding halves of the fossil. (Credit: Jodi Hilton, Tufts University)
ScienceDaily— 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.Read the rest on ScienceDaily.