The odd-looking specimen with scythe-like jaws indicates that early ants were spread widely across the globe while dinosaurs ...

Scientists have identified the fossilized remains of the oldest-known ant - a winged insect with fearsome scythe-like jaws ...

These nature preserves and historic sites — all just a short drive away — offer a rare escape from the noise of suburbia.

The museum has one of the world’s largest collections of fossilized insects and contains specimens from northeastern Brazil’s ...

Now, a team in Brazil has uncovered a 113-million-year-old hell ant that represents the oldest hell ant specimen known to ...

Researchers from the University of Pisa analyzed 523 insect-based food products sold online in Europe, evaluating their ...

A tiny fossil preserved in 16 million-year-old amber revealed an extinct Caribbean species that mastered the art of camouflage.

It eventually became a traveling insect zoo featuring live and preserved insects. The zoo began to charge for its programming, reaching thousands of Iowans, Mitchell said, offering more hands-on ...

Preserved in limestone, the newly described extinct insect is what’s known as a hell ant, a member of a subfamily called Haidomyrmecinae that lived during the Cretaceous period between 66 ...

It eventually became a traveling insect zoo featuring live and preserved insects. The zoo began to charge for its programming, reaching thousands of Iowans, Mitchell said, offering more hands-on ...

When you think of predators, you likely imagine big animals with sharp claws or teeth, like tigers or sharks. Over 100 ...

He found the fossil ant preserved in limestone from Brazil ... picture of the age of dinosaurs… there were incredible insects such as hell ants living together with them, that had very ...