As the Trump administration continues slashing budgets of groups like the National Science Foundation, scientists may increasingly need to rely on private tour companies for their research. In ...

A 113-million-year-old ant fossil, Vulcanidris Cratensis, has been identified in a Brazilian museum, making it the oldest ...

They’re like terrifying versions of crabs, with a sort of gravitational attraction to the same body form again and again.

Researchers created 3D models of ancient tracks in Oregon’s John Day Fossil Beds National Monument. The study revealed a ...

Scientists in Brazil found a very old ant fossil. This fossil is 113 million years old. It is of a 'hell ant,' a type of ...

Science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson spoke about death, climate change, and its political and economic dimensions in ...

Deinosuchus had a wide snout like an alligator’s. But unlike alligators, it thrived in salty waters. It lived between 82 and ...

Imagine stepping onto the icy shores of ancient Antarctica—not to see today’s tuxedoed, knee-high Emperor penguins, but to ...

As global temperatures rise, the ecology of Antarctica is already changing, but Earth's climate would have to change ...

Previously, the oldest known ants came from amber in France and Myanmar, dating back about 100 million years. This new ...

A prehistoric hell ant that lived among dinosaurs 113 million years ago had an unusual way to kill its prey and sheds new ...

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