Fossil fly with an extremely long proboscis sheds light on the insect pollination origin
(PHYSorg.com Archaeology & Fossils)

A long-nosed fly from the Jurassic of Central Asia, reported by Russian paleontologists, provides new evidence that insects started serving as pollinators long before the emergence of flowering plants. Equipped with a proboscis twice the length of the body, this fly predates the first angiosperms by about 40-45 million years. This suggests that insect pollination began to evolve in association with ancient gymnosperms. The results of the study are published in Gondwana Research.