Paleobiologist Scott Lakeram analyzes 300-million-year-old coal ball fossils to reveal prehistoric plant-insect interactions ...

What it eats: Leaves, fruit, mushrooms, tree bark, insects, fish and small mammals ... Babirusas are also sometimes called "prehistoric pigs" because they appear in cave drawings from nearly ...

Formed from prehistoric vegetation ... explain the giant creepy-crawlies that now emerged—the size reached by insects and similar creatures is thought to be limited by the amount of air they ...

Most modern gymnosperms—conifers and gingkoes, for instance—rely on the wind to spread their pollen. For some gymnosperms called cycads, insects serve as their pollen shuttle service, and did so long ...