An ancient buglike sea creature with a fan-shaped tail and a carapace that wrapped around its body swam upside down and looked like a taco — but this taco could bite back. Newfound fossils of the ...

Pressed into a piece of rock is the flattened, 47 million-year-old body of a cicada. Measuring about 1 inch (26.5 millimeters) long with a wingspan of 2.7 inches (68.2 millimeters), its fossilized ...

At first glance, the insect trapped in golden resin looked like any other tiny victim of deep time. Only under close ...

A fossil of a giant millipede found on a beach in northern England has revealed the "biggest bug that ever lived," paleontologists say. The fossil was discovered in January 2018 in a chunk of ...

(Reuters) - During the Carboniferous Period, Earth's atmospheric oxygen levels surged, helping some plants and animals grow to gigantic proportions. One notable example was Arthropleura, the biggest ...

I don’t know what it is about this time of the year, but I always seem to start finding silverfish in my office at Hartwick College, especially on my bookshelves. What is going on? I didn’t know; they ...

Finding additional fossils could clarify the function of this structure, and may help to flesh out other unusual details about Odaraia, such as the existence of three small eyes between the two bigger ...

A fossil of a giant millipede found on a beach in northern England has revealed the "biggest bug that ever lived," paleontologists say. The fossil was discovered in January 2018 in a chunk of ...

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