While dinosaurs roamed, a giant insect evolved wings for aerodynamic flight to defend itself against ancient birds, a new ...

Earth. A massive asteroid impact led to the extinction of diverse life forms from the planet, including the mighty dinosaurs.

A nearly 100 million-year-old firefly fossilized in amber sheds light on how the bioluminescent insects evolved during the ...

One of the most beautiful sights in the summer twilight is the gentle glow of fireflies lighting up the crepuscular gloom.

It’s named, fittingly, the Poozeum, and it opened earlier this year in Williams, Arizona, a small town about an hour south of ...

The study stated that the mammal living with dinosaurs exhibited characteristics "suggesting a diet more in line with ...

A new species of fossil mammal about the size of a muskrat, which was found in Colorado, lived during the age of dinosaurs.

Scientists have found that after the asteroid wiped out many plants, ants started farming fungi to help them survive and get ...

Paleontologists have discovered fossils of Heleocola piceanus, a swamp-dwelling mammal that lived around 75 million years ago ...

The new mammal lived in Colorado 70 to 75 million years ago -- a time when a vast inland sea covered large portions of the ...

A team of paleontologists working in northwest Colorado have discovered Heleocola piceanus, a mammal that was alive during ...

When dinosaurs roamed Earth ... But because firefly remains from this period can be difficult to come by since the insects’ softer bodies don’t preserve well in the fossil record, the ...