Location matters, as Antarctica may have served as a refuge ... But modern birds are exceptionally rare before the end-Cretaceous extinction, and more recent studies have cast doubt on the ...

This fossil is 13 million years older than any ant fossil found before—and reveals a sophisticated predator that lived ...

A prehistoric hell ant that lived among dinosaurs 113 million years ago had an unusual way to kill its prey and sheds new ...

The plant life of the Cretaceous was quite different to that of today. For example, temperate rainforest grew close to the poles, which back then were ice free. 'We have evidence from West Antarctica ...

Scientists have discovered the fossil of the oldest known ant, called the "hell ant," which lived 113 million years ago ...

The fossil of a 113-million-year-old hell ant, believed to have lived among dinosaurs, has now become the oldest ant specimen ...

A 113-million-year-old ant fossil, Vulcanidris Cratensis, has been identified in a Brazilian museum, making it the oldest ...

Digital reconstruction of the Late Cretaceous (~69 million years old ... of a fossil-bearing concretion discovered on Vega Island, Antarctic Peninsula.

The Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird,Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, with ammonites and plesiosaurs forcompany. Disclaimer ...

found on all continents except Antarctica, the study noted. However, ants haven’t always been dominant. They evolved during the late Jurassic and early Cretaceous, roughly 145 million years ago ...