Paleobiologist Scott Lakeram analyzes 300-million-year-old coal ball fossils to reveal prehistoric plant-insect interactions ...

An unusually well-preserved Australian fossil reveals details about the diet, behavior, and appearance of a ...

Recent research by scientists at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), Texas Tech University, and several other ...

Labandeira studies plant fossils that preserve damage left behind by ancient insects. Robert Gastaldo When plants took root on dry land more than 400 million years ago, they made themselves ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest fossil evidence of insect larvae with highly developed eyes, revealing that some ...

I now get to study and name fossil insects. One of the most exciting and fulfilling things in my life has been uncovering ...

Scientists in Australia have made an exciting discovery—a 15-million-year-old fossilized freshwater fish that not only provides clues about ancient life but also has preserved stomach contents and ...

There are about 950,000 documented species of insects on Earth, but this ancient insect is unlike anything Poinar has ever seen. But that didn't discourage Poinar who created a new order in which ...

Most modern gymnosperms—conifers and gingkoes, for instance—rely on the wind to spread their pollen. For some gymnosperms called cycads, insects serve as their pollen shuttle service, and did so long ...

Ancient lice ate dinosaur feathers ... Researchers led by Taiping Gao and Dong Ren at Capital Normal University in China, discovered the insect on dinosaur feathers fossilized in 100-million-year-old ...

And by virtue of an ancient alliance, the jaglavak are believed to aid the Movo in times of trouble, including cleaning up their compounds by chasing out undesirable insects, because the jaglavak ...