Two fossils of singing cicadas, one of which was remarkably well preserved, reveals that the insects dispersed in Europe millions of years earlier than once thought.

Arthropleura was the largest-known land arthropod, a group spanning the likes of insects, spiders, millipedes, centipedes, lobsters and crabs. Its head anatomy provided evidence that millipedes ...

The image suggests that ancient insects were eating parts of a tree fern. Smithsonian Institution The biggest challenge with this research is trying to figure out what insect species produced each ...

Despite being part of an ancient lineage, this species already displayed ... The specimen came to light during a systematic examination of one of the world's largest collections of fossil insects from ...

The prehistoric ant lived among dinosaurs ... The museum has one of the world’s largest collections of fossilized insects and contains specimens from northeastern Brazil’s Crato Formation ...

Brood XIV, one of the biggest broods, emerges across a dozen ... scientists were able to assign the ancient insect to a modern tribe of cicadas called Platypleurini, “which is today primarily ...

Arthropleura was the largest-known land arthropod, a group spanning the likes of insects, spiders, millipedes, centipedes, lobsters and crabs. Its head anatomy provided evidence that millipedes and ...