Helmetia expansa was found to have walking legs and molting behavior, changing assumptions about its mobility and growth. For ...

Imagine a creature so strange, so utterly unlike anything alive today, that even the world’s top scientists had no idea which way was up—or even which end was the head. Meet Hallucigenia, a spiky worm ...

This fossil is 13 million years older than any ant fossil found before—and reveals a sophisticated predator that lived alongside the dinosaurs. The hell ant existed over 100 million years ago ...

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The find earned it the title of the oldest such specimen, according to a paper in the journal Current Biology. The fossil is a member of Haidomyrmecinae — an extinct subfamily from the Cretaceous ...

Gail T. Burgess, 88, passed away peacefully at his home in Gilbert, Arizona, on April 12, 2025. He was born on October 29, 1936, in Tucson, Arizona, to Frank Thompson Burgess and Mildred Thomas ...

Ants are tiny powerhouses that can lift 100 times their weight and fend off lions. They have also lived on Earth for millions of years longer than previously thought. That’s according to ...

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The ant fossil's discovery challenges our understanding of ant evolution and biogeography through time, according to the researchers. The previous oldest ants were found in France and Burma and ...

Texas’s Guadalupe Mountains were once an ancient reef on the edge of a shallow sea. Now they form some of the highest and most fossil-rich peaks in the state, offering a rare look into a prehistoric ...

Shifting buildings away from fossil fuels and onto “geothermal energy networks” like CMU’s can help achieve ambitious climate goals, especially as the Trump administration shuns other forms ...