Tiny insects trapped in amber could tell us a great deal about their roles in past ecosystems: pollinators, parasites, predators, and prey. But how many of the insects preserved alongside each other ...

This year marked the 20th anniversary of the annual Darwin Days in Ithaca, which is hosted by the Museum of the Earth. Ithaca residents gathered from Feb. 10 to 14 to celebrate Charles Darwin's ...

Biologists identify a new species of "living fossil" chiton through cutting-edge mitochondrial genome sequencing.

Researchers studied six pieces of amber containing fossilized ants with other insects nearby revealing an ecosystem in the ...

This ‘living fossil' sat on the ocean floor for years before anyone realized what it really was.

You know about celebrity perfume lines. You’ve probably seen a famous face on a tequila bottle. But celebrity parasitic worms ...

Ants trapped in amber reveal possible partnerships and parasites, offering a rare glimpse into ecosystems from nearly 100 ...

The study of fossilized resin stones containing several creatures allowed scientists to recreate the interactions between ...

Back from the brink. Under a microscope at Chester Zoo, UK, a greater Bermuda snail (Poecilozonites bermudensis) awaits its ...

Mollusks appeared 540 million years ago, but almost half the unique traits of this group evolved in the first 96 million ...

Ants and other species who lived alongside dinosaurs but preserved in fossilized tree resin reveal a great deal about their ...

Scientists discover thousands of new species every year, and a surprising number of those creatures end up named after pop ...