This week, uncover the secrets of an 18th century mummy, meet an ancestor of unusual modern mammals, see the sun like never ...

Scientists have identified the fossilized remains of the oldest-known ant - a winged insect with fearsome scythe-like jaws ...

Arthropods, which include invertebrates such as insects, arachnids and crustaceans, make up roughly 85% of the animal life on the planet and one of the most extensive and well-preserved fossil ...

Fossils are much more than just bones, the researchers emphasised. Some of the most impressive finds contained the remains of ...

The Vulcanidris anatomy is remarkably well preserved in the limestone ... "I was looking for wasps among the fossils of the collection and was shocked when I recognized this one as a close ...

A 113-million-year-old hell ant that once lived in northeastern Brazil is now the oldest ant specimen known to science, finds ...