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

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

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

The hell ant shows how insect species evolved, adapted, and spread throughout the ancient world.

The goal in storing grain in silos is to maintain a steady consistent quality of grain that is relatively dry and at a ...

The fossil’s discovery in Brazil shows that ants have been around for longer than once thought. This insect impaled its prey ...

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

The 113-million-year-old fossil was unearthed in the Crato Formation in northeast Brazil. The area is already renowned for ...

A 16-million-year-old ant, trapped in Dominican amber, sheds light on the evolution of an inconspicuous ... Known for their ability to blend into the ground, these insects were previously thought to ...

“Other hell ants have been described with odd mandibles, but always as amber specimens.” It’s rare to find insects preserved in rock. Other hell ants from the Cretaceous have been found ...

A 113-million-year-old hell ant that once lived in northeastern Brazil is now the oldest ant specimen known to science, finds a report publishing in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on April 24.