A 99-million-year-old fly fossil has found an unlikely second life online. Trapped in amber with a fungus jutting from its ...

There is a huge variety of life on Earth, but we sometimes see similarities in organisms that live in very different areas ...

Insects may be full of protein, but they weren’t on the menu for prehistoric hunter-gatherers in Europe or Central Asia. Even ...

When we think of pollinating insects, bees, butterflies, or flies usually come to mind—but rarely true bugs. Yet it seems that in the past, they also played an important role in plant pollination. A ...

Learn how ancient dental plaque, Neanderthal comparisons, and chitin-digestion genes show that Europeans rarely ate insects ...

Scientists recently revived a microscopic roundworm from 46,000-year-old Siberian permafrost that was so well preserved, it started having babies. But this isn't the first time "zombie" creatures in ...

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. An ancient buglike ...

When we think of pollinating insects, bees, butterflies, or flies usually come to mind — but rarely true bugs. Yet it seems that in the past, they also played an important role in plant pollination. A ...

You know the drill: An ancient bug is minding its own business, munching some leaves, buzzin’ some dinos’, when all of a sudden he’s sucked up into a ball of tree resin and winds up in a 21st century ...

Western dislike of eating insects may be linked to ancient geography, genetics, and long-term diet patterns, not just culture ...

(CNN) — 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 ...