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 gnarled landscape of branches, trunks and leaves that provide a seemingly ...

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.

Together with previously discovered bioluminescent beetles from Cretaceous amber ... illuminate the evolution and mechanisms ...

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 ...

Researchers studying 100-million-year-old fossils found in amber discover that Cretaceous lacewings had sophisticated larval eyes.

Scientists have discovered the oldest fossil evidence of insect larvae with highly developed eyes, revealing that some ancient larvae had advanced vision much earlier than previously thought. The ...

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, ...

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 ...

More information: Carolin Haug et al, Cretaceous lacewing larvae with binocular vision demonstrate the convergent evolution of sophisticated simple eyes, Insect Science (2025). DOI: 10.1111/1744 ...