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That's good. Also, there are over 3,000 mosquito species. So evolution appears to have done its thing. I don't know what other, different-looking insects may be descended from some long-ago mosquito mutations. Just because bugs don't wear signs telling us "I'm a distant desdendant of a mosquito," isn't any reason to assume that there aren't many such. A specialist would be able to tell us. In any event, the mosquito certainly hasn't remained static, although I wouldn't be surprised to learn that there are still examples around of the original stock. Such survival is not a contradiction of the theory. After all, we still have bacteria with us.

You are porbably getting tired of me with my 'mosquito theory' showing up on every evo/creo debate :) Since I'm not a believer in either philosophy, I can step back and point out what I think are logic flaws. My view is that the three tennets of evo'n (random chance, nat selection, and time) are simply insufficient to explain all the life forms that exist. And I think evo's should give up on the fossil record, trying to use it to demonstrate that evo'n is correct. At best, the record is patchy. Think of all the millions of creatures that may have lived, but weren't kind enough to leave us fossils is some convenient place to find them. (Where are the short necked giraffes?) On the other hand, DNA might prove to be more useful. Maybe it does show a line of transendency between the species?