About 99 million years ago, this horned "hell ant" was in the midst of devouring a prehistoric cockroach when it got stuck in ...

A 99-million-year-old amber fossil captures a prehistoric 'hell ant' devouring its prey, providing the first-ever glimpse ...

The estimate of 5.5 million species of insects is interesting. What’s even more remarkable is that because scientists have ...

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The Xerces blue butterfly went extinct along the San Francisco coast some 80 years ago. But scientists have identified a ...

Recent research by scientists at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), Texas Tech University, and several other ...

More than a quarter of our planet's natural "geomorphs"—animals such as beavers and hippos that, collectively, can reshape ...

Mimikyu most certainly wins the award for being the strangest-looking Pokémon around. Even stranger when you consider Mimikyu ...

This group includes ants, bees, beetles ... illustration of an ancient insect creating gall-like structures on an extinct Jurassic plant, Anomozamites sinensis, of the Mesozoic Era.

A version of this essay will be presented at the American Chemical Society Spring 2025 meeting by 2025 Priestley Medal winner ...