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In Germany, at a UNESCO World Heritage site in old lake sediments of the Messel Pit, Researchers have discovered a previously unknown skeleton of a fossil fly species. In the tummy of the fossil fly, various plant pollen could be seen which gives exceptional insights into the behavior of their feeding, the duty of the fly as a pollinator, and their ecology.
(Photo : Egor Kamelev)
The Skeleton Pollen
The attention of the researchers was not caught by the fly itself, but its big belly suggesting that the belly was still full with the last food intake of the fly. Shockingly, the stomach content analysis showed that it was full of different plant s pollen. The skeleton pollen from the stomach of the fly was used to regenerate the old environment resided by the fly, the interaction of biotic between fly and plant, and the behavior of the fly during feeding.