BARCELONA, Spain, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- An insect larva preserved in 110 million-year-old amber is the earliest evidence seen of insect camouflage to protect against predators, Spanish scientists say.
Writing in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers at the University of Barcelona and colleagues report the fossil is a predatory larva of the order Neuroptera that has covered itself in a tangle of plant filaments it collected with its jaws to form a defensive camouflage shield.