Cicada season is dawning across the eastern US, this time with Brood XIV resurfacing for the first time since 2008. But as ...

For the first time, a fossilized true cicada has been described from the Messel Pit deposits. Eoplatypleura messelensis is ...

Researchers created 3D models of ancient tracks in Oregon’s John Day Fossil Beds National Monument. The study revealed a ...

The recent discovery of fossil evidence of a tree species now considered endemic to the Western Ghats, in a coalfield in ...

Bennett: So these Eocene fossils from about 50 million years ago are really cool. They’re telling us a lot about a shallow lakeshore environment [and] the combination of all of these traces ...

"Although the fossil is a female ... Messel Pit but also closes an important gap in the history of cicadas in the Eocene. In the future, Eoplatypleura messelensis could serve as an important ...

Imagine a world where forests stretched endlessly, and strange, powerful beasts prowled the land—creatures so fierce and ...

The traces are the only evidence of small lizards’ existence at John Day during the Eocene. “The fossils of the bird and lizard are the first evidence of those groups of animals from that ...