Bruce Archibald, a paleontologist at Simon Fraser University, and his colleagues have been studying insect fossils from southern B.C., and northern interior Washington for 30 years.

A 47-million-year-old cicada fossil from Germany’s Messel Pit could teach us about the evolution of insect communication.

An almost overlooked fossil discovered in a Brazilian museum collection has revealed the oldest ant specimen known to science, according to new research. The prehistoric ant lived among dinosaurs ...

A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body of zombie fungus bursting forth from its head. The insect, along with ...

A fossil specimen of Stanleycaris hirpex from the Burgess Shale shows a bizarre-looking animal with three eyes that sheds light on the evolution of the brain, vision and head of modern insects and ...

“The anterior sclerite has been lost in modern arthropods, as it most likely fused with other parts of the head during the evolutionary history of the group,” Ortega-Hernández in a statement. “What we ...

The discovery of a tiny insect fossil is unearthing big questions about the global movement of animals and the connection to changes in climate and shifting continents across deep time. The fossil, ...

A strange fossil firefly found trapped in amber in Myanmar is shedding new light on the origin of glowing insects, scientists say. Several deepsea fish, mushrooms and insects are capable of ...

An insect fossil found near Kamloops, B.C., has researchers questioning the global movement of animals and evolutionary changes based on climate. The fossil, estimated to be 50 million years old ...

When the fossil was 3D scanned, this revealed other characteristics that identified it as a hell ant. For instance, it had forklift-like mandibles that may have enabled it to skewer other insects ...

Both fossils were 99 million years old. That suggests the ancestors of Ophiocordyceps were already infecting multiple groups of insects back then, says Labandeira.