A 113-million-year-old fossil discovered in Brazil has shattered records, marking the oldest known ant specimen ever ...

What's the currency for all life on Earth? Carbon. Every living thing needs a source of carbon to grow and reproduce. In the ...

A 47-million-year-old fossil cicada discovered in Germany’s Messel Pit offers groundbreaking insights into ancient insect ...

A team of scientists from IIT Kharagpur ... supported not only plants but also ancient animals, such as early horses, snakes, and a variety of insects. By studying pollen, which is resilient ...

PALAENTOLOGY: An international team led by Slovak scientist Hana Jurikova has shed light on an ancient climate enigma - the ...

A tiny fossil preserved in 16 million-year-old amber revealed an extinct Caribbean species that mastered the art of camouflage.

But in a few rivers, such as the Condamine River in Queensland, there’s another source: ancient natural gas bubbling up from underground, which is eaten by microorganisms. Insects such as ...

Complex neural circuits likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence ...

Now, a team in Brazil has uncovered a 113-million-year-old hell ant that represents the oldest hell ant specimen known to ...