See stunning fossils of insects, fish and plants from an ancient Australian forest
New specimens show a parasitoid wasp, fish that have dined on phantom midges and more
![image of a fossilized wasp](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/010622_cg_aussie-fossils_feat.jpg?fit=1030%2C580&ssl=1)
This parasitoid wasp, one of thousands of newly found fossils at a site in New South Wales, lived in a temperate Australian forest between 16 million and 11 million years ago.
M.R. McCurry et al/Science Advances 2022