A 100-million-year-old amber fossil captures an extraordinary moment, showing a spider attacking a wasp.

Asian needle ants found in the southeastern states of the U.S. have been spreading north and west for years, but experts now ...

Despite how much humans rely on insects, our actions are reducing their populations in many parts of the world. A recent ...

Imaging of a 113-million-year-old ant fossil reveals complex, specialized mandibles, showing advanced predatory traits much ...

Naturalist might turn out to be an important part of the murder trial, but how else can observations of plants and animals be ...

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

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

The newly identified specimen was part of a collection of insect fossils from a fossil-rich stone quarry known as the Crato Formation, and housed at the University of São Paulo’s Zoology Museum.

In the ancient landscapes of what is now northeastern Brazil, 113 million years ago, an unusual ant with bizarre ...

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

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

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.