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

Insights Into Forest Fires and Ecosystem Dynamics The mid-Cretaceous forests of Antarctica, though lush, were not immune to fire. Volcanic activity and changing climate conditions likely ...

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

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

Previously, the oldest known ants came from amber in France and Myanmar, dating back about 100 million years. This new ...

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

The presence of resin also answers long-standing questions about the changing landscape of Antarctica as it moved south. Scientists knew the mudstone had formed in the mid-Cretaceous, 92 to 83 ...

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

Credit: X/@Extinct_AnimaIs The discovery suggests that ants were already widespread during the early Cretaceous period ... found on every continent except Antarctica. However, they evolved ...

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 ...

Beneath the turquoise waters of the South Pacific hides a massive secret—Zealandia, a sunken landmass stretching nearly two ...