Spriggina floundersi was no bigger than a few centimeters, lived on ancient seafloors in what is now South Australia, and ...

If you happen to be right-handed, you may be able to trace the origins of that trait to a wormlike animal that lived about ...

Buried in Australia's so-called dead heart, a trove of exceptional fossils, including those of trapdoor spiders, giant ...

Bees are known for being incredibly smart – this recent discovery confirms that their ancient counterparts were just as ...

Some mantises died and fossilized into rock or amber. That preserved them for hundreds of millions of years. Now those ...

Scientists have uncovered what may be the earliest evidence of "right-handedness" in the animal kingdom, dating back more ...

Raid is a popular option for killing bugs and keeping them out of your home. From environmental impacts to health concerns, ...

Fossil fragments confirm Praearcturus gigas as the largest scorpion ever discovered, perhaps one metre in length. Specimens ...

Zoraptera, also known as angel insects or ground lice, are tiny termite-like insects generally found underneath bark or in ...

A deuterostome cambroernid fossil from the Jiangchuan Biota (~554-539mya), plus artist’s reconstruction (scale bar: 2mm). Credit: Gaorong Li and Xiaodong Wang New fossils hint that the roots of ...

A stunning fossil discovery shows that ancient bees used the empty tooth sockets of mammal bones as tiny nests after owls ...