First true insect

According to Official Guinness Records,

The earliest true insect is Rhyniognatha hirsti, currently known only from a fossilised head preserved in a fragment of Rhynie chert from Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It lived during the early Devonian Period, approximately 400 million years ago.

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