Micropterigids are preserved in amber going back 125 million years or more. These tiny moths are unique because the adults have chewing mouthparts. They chomp pollen grains or fern spores and grind ...
A predator of the Cambrian was the giant, shrimplike Anomalocaris, which trapped its prey in fearsome mouthparts lined with hooks. Even stranger was the five-eyed Opabinia, which caught its ...
Dr Russell Garwood of the University of Manchester, who is not connected with the study, said it had always been assumed that coiled mouthparts had evolved alongside the flowers that these animals ...