Some of the world’s most important contributors are also the smallest. Insects might be a nuisance to us when they chew on leaves in our garden, bore holes into our fruit, or buzz around us ...

Scientists have discovered a extinct parasitic wasp with an abdomen that worked like a Venus flytrap inside a 99-million-year ...

Paleontologists discovered a 99-million-year-old wasp, Sirenobethylus charybdis, in Kachin amber, Myanmar. Its unusual hairy ...

Preserved in amber, the wasp appears to have used a Venus flytrap-like structure on its body to grasp potential hosts.

While preparing to build a power substation next to a Utah residential subdivision, a prehistoric field of dinosaur and other ...

Prehistoric hunter-gatherer populations in Europe experienced significant demographic shifts at the end of the last Ice Age, particularly during the Final Paleolithic (14,000-11,600 years ago).

Insects are the dominant form of animal life on our planet, providing humans and wildlife with pollination, food, and recycling services but, despite concerns about population declines, little is ...

Green algae blooms swirling around the Baltic Sea. Credit: European Space Agency / CC BY-SA 2.0 Scientists have revived prehistoric algae that lay dormant for nearly 7,000 years at the bottom of the ...

Insect populations are declining globally, impacting ecosystems Only 1% of insect species have been assessed for conservation status A new framework is proposed for monitoring insect populations and ...

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On a small island in the Philippines, as day turned to night, researchers scanned the forests looking for signs of large, fanged, hairy insects. The team, peering into mountainside crevices ...