Researchers analyzed the fossils using optical microscopes, looking both at the fungi and the insects they had infected. Then ...

An ant and fly from the Cretaceous period offer insights into the history of Ophiocordyceps, the fungal parasite made popular ...

In the video game The Last of Us and its spin-off HBO series, humans fight to survive against cordyceps, a parasitic fungus ...

Long before humans walked the Earth, while dinosaurs were still roaming the land, a parasitic fungus hijacked the mind of a ...

Parasitic fungi have been with us since at least the Cretaceous period zombifying insects according to a new study of fossils ...

Paleontologists studying insects trapped in amber from 99 million years ago have made a remarkable discovery: an ant and a ...

Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers report that fossilized entomopathogenic fungi from mid-Cretaceous amber reveal some ...

Wang and his colleagues turned to a huge cache of Cretaceous amber from Myanmar, combing through amber markets in that country and in China for specimens with insects preserved inside.

He doesn't know it yet, but today's haul of golden globes will yield numerous Cretaceous insects, including a spider, a handful of biting midges, and a male lacewing likely never seen before.

Insect extinction across the Cretaceous-Paleocene boundary may have been directly caused by catastrophic conditions after the asteroid impact and by the disappearance of host plant species.

Insects already had a variety of defense strategies in the Cretaceous. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 12 / 231221123058.htm ...

But by the end of the Cretaceous, birds did look quite a lot like modern birds.” Clapham emphasized that the study focused on changes in the maximum size of insects over time. Average insect size ...