A new paleontological discovery, as reported in the Historical Biology journal, has shed light on a fascinating scene from the Cretaceous period—a spider’s predatory attack on a wasp ...

A polished piece of amber from Myanmar has revealed one of the most significant fossil discoveries in recent years– an ...

Paleontologists discovered the oldest ant species on the planet, 113 million years old and with scythe-shaped jaws.

Now, a team in Brazil has uncovered a 113-million-year-old hell ant that represents the oldest hell ant specimen known to science. The ant was preserved in limestone and is described in a study ...

The discovery comes from a fossil of an ancient firefly species that was initially discovered in 2016, trapped in 99 million-year-old Burmese amber from northern Myanmar. The beetle is only the ...

Barden et alHell ant caught inside amber fossil with its prey (left) and a reconstruction of the specimen (right). “Since the first hell ant was unearthed about a hundred years ago, it’s been ...

A prehistoric hell ant that lived among dinosaurs 113 million years ago had an unusual way to kill its prey and sheds new light on insect evolution, researchers have found.

But in the new study, published Tuesday (Nov. 12) in the journal Antarctic Science, researchers identified a tiny piece of amber, around 0.002 inch (70 micrometers) across, in sediment cores ...

Amber, which forms from tree resin, preserves ancient specimens in three dimensions, revealing “all the delicate features that you normally don’t get in other fossil types.” The flower that ...

The discovery comes from a fossil of an ancient firefly species that was initially discovered in 2016, trapped in 99 million-year-old Burmese amber from northern Myanmar. The beetle is only the ...