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''Rare Aquatic Predator'': Scientists Managed to Recreate a Fly From a 40-Year-Old Specimen

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In a remarkable scientific breakthrough, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have sequenced the genome of one of the most unusual fruit fly species ever discovered - a species that preys on other insects and lives most of its life in running water. The species, Drosophila enhydrobia, has not been seen in the wild since 1981, and knowledge about it has been extremely limited. To overcome the lack of live specimens, the researchers turned to …
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In a remarkable scientific breakthrough, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have sequenced the genome of one of the most unusual fruit fly species ever discovered - a species that preys on other insects and lives most of its life in running water. The species, Drosophila enhydrobia, has not been seen in the wild since 1981, and knowledge about it has been extremely limited. To overcome the lack of live specimens, the researchers turned to …

A rare fruit fly from Africa turns out to be less of an evolutionary mystery than previously thought. Subscribe to the newsletter! Want the latest science news fresh in your inbox every day? Or every week? Subscribe to the newsletter here! We mainly know fruit flies from the fruit bowl. However, the fruit fly species Drosophila enhydrobia does everything […] More science? Read the latest articles on Scientias.nl.

·Middelharnis, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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scientias.nl broke the news in Middelharnis, Netherlands (Kingdom of the) on Monday, May 11, 2026.
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