When you think of predators, you likely imagine big animals with sharp claws or teeth, like tigers or sharks. Over 100 ...

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.

Scientists say it is a member of Haidomyrmecinae - an extinct group that only lived during the Cretaceous period.

Preserved in limestone and dating back 113 million years, the specimen is now the oldest known ant fossil, according to a new ...

A piece of amber from the early Miocene was discovered in the northern mines of the Santiago Providence of the Dominican Republic and then deposited in a natural history museum, according to a study ...

The research suggests that dirt ants once inhabited the Caribbean islands before vanishing during the Miocene epoch.

Apr. 18, 2025 — Scientists report adaptive divergence in cryptic color pattern is underlain by two distinct, complex chromosomal rearrangements, where millions of ... Environmental Variability ...

In February, scientific journal Palaeontologia Electronica published “Following their footsteps: Report of vertebrate fossil tracks from John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon ...

Sensing the familiar jolt of adrenaline that surged anytime she came across a fossil, she called out to her husband, Patrick, who was digging nearby. Carefully, the two amateur paleontologists ...

Kraken, one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, is reorganizing its workforce by reducing some positions and consolidating teams where redundancies exist, while continuing to hire in ...

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

Microbes living beneath Antarctica’s ice sheet may survive on methane generated by geothermal heat rising from deep below Earth’s surface. The discovery could have implications for assessing ...