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

Photomicrograph of Basiceros enana, a newly discovered extinct dirt ant species preserved in Dominican amber, formed from ...

Wherever there's dirt there's bound to be ants, but one particular group is so adept at blending in with the ground that they ...

The revolutionary discovery debunks previous beliefs about dirt ants and even geography. Here's what they found.

Barden et alHell ant caught inside amber fossil with its prey (left) and a reconstruction of the specimen (right). “Since the first hell ant was unearthed about a hundred years ago, it’s been ...

The ancient fossil shows these elusive ants have a longer history connected to Earth's soil than previously thought.

A routine fossil-hunting trip turned into a groundbreaking discovery for a pair of researchers when they stumbled upon a rare ...

A remarkable fossilized larva has been discovered by scientists with its brain and guts still intact. The fossilized creature ...

Denisovans are an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and our own species, Homo sapiens.

A rare 16-million-year-old ant preserved in amber is helping scientists uncover new secrets about one of nature's most ...