An ant and fly from the Cretaceous period offer insights into the history of Ophiocordyceps, the fungal parasite made popular ...

Tropical beetles unknown to science at higher risk of extinction. ... Trilobite ‘Pompeii’ reveals 500-million-year-old animals preserved in exquisite detail. Some of the best three-dimensionally ...

Beetles Have Photoreceptors for long-wave Light 'To our knowledge, we are the first to have experimentally demonstrated that beetles can actually perceive the colour red,' says Dr Johannes Spaethe ...

That nuanced view comes from pairing rock textures with fossil lineups – especially trilobites, the armadillo-like icons of early animal life. Each pulse of shoreline advance coincides with distinct ...

A Guide to the Fossil Invertebrate Animals in the Department of Geology and Palaeontology in the British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London, S.W. Second edition. Pp. x + 185 + 7 plates.

In a 2023 study, Pearson and colleagues used foraminifera fossil data to predict the fate of the ocean’s twilight zone, a region roughly 650 feet to 3,250 feet below the surface.