The preserved insect is a newly described species. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The broken parts of a tiny, Eocene insect's ...

Researchers at the University of Texas in Austin claim to have identified the world's oldest bug. The specimen is a millipede ancestor found on the island of Kerrera in Scotland, and it dates back 425 ...

Recovered from the Green River Formation in present-day Colorado, this fossil represents a new genus and species of predatory insects known as assassin bugs. (Credit: Palaeontological Association) (CN ...

The fossil of Aphelicophontes danjuddi, a new genus and species of assassin bug, accompanied by the fossil of a small beetle Palaeontological Association The fossil record is a lot more than just ...

A 425-million-year-old millipede fossil from the Scottish island of Kerrera is the world's oldest "bug" -- older than any known fossil of an insect, arachnid or other related creepy-crawly, according ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The fossilized insect is tiny and its genital capsule, called a pygophore, is roughly the length of a grain of rice. It is remarkable, scientists say, because the bug's physical ...