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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

This plant-insect reciprocal interaction goes back ... to a more accurate documentation of life on Earth during the Cretaceous and helps scientists in reconstructing the past environment and ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

Chinese scientists have found a 125-million-year-old venomous scorpion fossil in northeast China. The discovery, made by ...

A team of researchers spotted two teeth fossils of creatures living alongside dinosaurs who later turned out to be of human ...

Scientists have discovered a rare fossil of a giant, venomous scorpion that lived 125 million years ago, offering new insights into ancient ecosystems.