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

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

Chinese researchers studied adult and larval Loricera specimens trapped in the Cretaceous in three amber fossils unearthed ...

A tiny insect that survived the extinction event which killed the dinosaurs throws up questions for evolutionary theory.

Parry and a team of researchers announced the fossil is a previously unknown species of arthropod − a category that includes ...

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

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

Rare fossils uncovered in Colorado show an unexpected swamp-dwelling creature lived among the dinosaurs millions of years ago ...

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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 ...