Earlier this summer, researchers announced they found fossils that likely come from courting dinosaurs. To find more fossil evidence of prehistoric animals wooing and mating, scientists will have to ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Amber found in the Amazon forest region of Ecuador containing a trove of well-preserved fossils of wasps, midges, flies, beetles and other insects is giving a glimpse of a ...

A wheel bug is a bizarre-looking insect you'll see in landscapes and other areas late in the year. It may be a bit of a stretch, but I think it resembles a stegosaurus, the dinosaur with prominent ...

By now, scientists have a pretty good idea of what conditions were like in the Cretaceous period, which started about 135 million years ago, and came to a sudden end 70 million years later, with the ...

Feathered dinosaurs were annoyed by tiny pests that are still familiar to many schoolchildren -- and their horrified parents -- today: lice. Scientists discovered previously unknown tiny insects ...

For more than a century, amber has helped scientists reconstruct vanished worlds by preserving tiny fragments of life that ...

Ever wonder how insects have survived for millions of years while dinosaurs became extinct? The Philadelphia Zoo's newest immersive experience has answers. Staying Power: Be Distinct, or Go Extinct!

Take their descendants, the birds (or avian dinosaurs). Weighing in at less than 2 grams, the bee humming bird would be dwarfed by the smallest non-avian dinosaur. And the dwarf gecko, the world's ...

1. Fossils : a time capsule -- 2. The Cretaceous : a time of change -- 3. Herbivory -- 4. Dinosaurs competing with insects -- 5. Did dinosaurs or insects "invent" flowering plants? -- 6. Pollination - ...