At more than 110 million years old, a fossil excavated in Brazil is the oldest undisputed ant fossil ever discovered. The finding adds to evidence that the first ants evolved on the supercontinent ...

By the time the butterflies came, the world was already healing. Roughly 236 million years ago, in the scarred aftermath of ...

Researchers have discovered a never-before-seen species of "hell ant" that lived 113 million years ago, making it the oldest ant fossil ever found.

A tadpole fossil found in Argentina, dating back at least 161 million years, is the oldest that has ever been discovered. The fossil was found back in January 2020, with news of the discovery ...

Life Oldest adult jellyfish fossil ever found is over 500 million years old. A fossil discovered in Canada reveals that jellyfish developed the swimming stage of their life cycle more than half a ...

The oldest tadpole fossil ever has been found—and it’s a big one. The discovery in Patagonia shows that frogs have had a tadpole stage for at least 160 million years.

A new paper in the journal Nature details the oldest known tadpole fossil. Ringing in 20 million years earlier than scientists previously had evidence of, this fossil might get us closer to an answer.

The Gogo fish fossils used in this study were discovered within rocks found in the Kimberley. Curtin Univeristy. With the advent of an X-ray method called “synchrotron microtomography” – first used on ...

In a cave in northern Spain, researchers have discovered pieces of a fossilized face belonging to an ancient human ancestor — the oldest human fossil ever found in Western Europe. The remains ...

NEW YORK — Scientists have discovered the oldest-known fossil of a giant tadpole that wriggled around over 160 million years ago. The new fossil, found in Argentina, surpasses the previous ...

The oldest tadpole ever found is 161 million years old and amazingly preserved. ... You heard that right, though it is technically the fossil of a tadpole, the oldest known fossil of a tadpole.

Life Oldest ant fossil ever found shows how ants took over the world. A fossilised 113-million-year-old hell ant from Brazil adds to the evidence that the first ants evolved in the southern ...