Thrips are tiny insects—their sizes range between 0.5mm and 15mm in length and many are shorter than 5mm. But the damage they ...

Her world—100 million years ago in Myanmar—is not one of vast seas, towering mountains or broad deserts, but a damp and ...

During the age of dinosaurs, small predators with unexpectedly advanced eyes hunted in the darkness roughly 100 million years ...

Long before the carnage began, the Cretaceous picked up where the Jurassic ... stole the show—a spread enhanced with the help of insects from bees and wasps to ants and beetles.

Adult insects are known for their fascinating and complex eyes, which allow them to accomplish remarkable sensory feats when performing functions such as searching for food or mates. In many insect ...

But researchers have long proposed that today’s diversity of herbivorous insect feeding styles developed when flowering plants, or angiosperms, evolved during the early Cretaceous period between ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest fossil evidence of insect larvae with highly developed eyes, revealing that some ...

The new paper presents the earliest known evidence of insects feeding on feathers, and the authors suggest that this type of parasite evolved during or before the middle of the Cretaceous period, ...

Extremely rare fossil of an ancient scorpion unearthed at China's Jehol Biota. The scorpion would've been a key species in ...

A piece of ancient amber found in a small Burmese village holds preserved remains that indicate this family of insects survived longer than the Early Cretaceous, as previously believed. A former ...

In the scientific field, the task of knowing the past is fundamental. With the premise of investigating the evolution of species, one of the most important tasks in this sector is ...