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 ...

But there are some differences. The antennae of Flammarionella (named for French astronomer Camille Flammarion) are densely ...

The meteor’s impact triggered a cascade of effects. It kicked up so much dust that the sky darkened. As the sun dimmed, ...

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.

A strange fossil firefly found trapped in amber in Myanmar is shedding new light on the origin of glowing insects, scientists ...

A team of paleontologists working near Rangely, Colorado, has uncovered a new (or, more accurately, very old) state ...

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 ...