14.6-Million-Year-Old Fossil of a Female Bee Well Preserved in Organic Mudstone Discovered, Oldest Bee Specimen Bees are mostly seen buzzing around and working hard to turn nectar from flowers ...

Finding fossils of any species is an exciting discovery for science, but some are a little bit more special than others. In ...

The fossil is not of the organism, but of a structure it built. Even more elaborate dwellings have been fossilized. The photo shows a fossil termite mound. Even fossil bee hives have been found. 13.

Ultimately a tempest fueled by a hurricane drove torrential rains across the bee's graveyard, washed away the accumulated organic matter, and exposed the fossil once again. Along with other ...

Most people see the Central Valley as all agriculture,” one paleontologist said, but it’s a rich source of prehistoric ...

Only two fossil specimens of A. morrisi have ever been found, The Fresno Bee reported in 2017, excavated from layers of rock that once lay at the bottom of the ancient Pacific Ocean. Both sets of ...