Insect fossils blow me away because squishy things typically don't preserve well, except under specific conditions. This one, from the Messel Pit in Germany, is exceptional: It's a fly with a belly full of pollen.

Yellow blobs in the image on the far left are the last meal this fly ate 48 MILLION YEARS AGO. Its body is so well-preserved that scientists could even tell what type of pollen it was 😱 https://cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(21)00232-3 #FossilFriday #fossil #insects #paleontology