A 14.6-million-year-old fossilized Leioproctus bee has been discovered, calling into question current theories about ...

Because scientists assume that bees have essentially always been around, pollinating plants and "creating" new species, it has been a mystery why the bee fossil record only dated back about 65 ...

This has led to a perception that bees are comparatively new to New Zealand and in the absence of any fossil record it has been challenging to determine the antiquity of the meiofauna. A species ...

They conclude that bees are so old that when they emerged ... community still has much more to learn. BOSSERT: The fossil record is most well studied in the northern hemisphere.

Thousands of years ago, a group of adolescent bees became trapped in cocoons inside their nest and left behind a remarkably preserved record of their ... "This new fossil site is a remarkable ...

The bee fossil record remains scrappy and sparse compared to that of ants. Most of the bee fossils are solitary species, while most of the fossil specimens are social bee workers from species that ...

Second, the team kept noticing giant honey bee nests on the surrounding rocks ... emerged to fill the gap in the fossil record. In 2019, one team announced the discovery of a new Triassic ...