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 ...

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 ...

Insights Into Forest Fires and Ecosystem Dynamics The mid-Cretaceous forests of Antarctica, though lush, were not immune to ...

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

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

Antarctica is now a harsh land of ice and ... the Pine Island Glacier dated to about 90 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period when dinosaurs were the dominant land animals.

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 ...

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 ...