Jurassic-era blue-stain fungi fossils found in China push their origin back 80 million years. These fungi pierced wood using ...

In a remarkable find, 160-million-year-old blue-stain fungi fossils have been unearthed in China's Jurassic Tiaojishan ...

Many insect groups were already established by the early Mesozoic, though modern species have evolved specific adaptations since then. The higher oxygen levels during parts of the Mesozoic might allow ...

This one-of-a-kind predatory strategy has never been seen in other insects. Scientists think it was used to trap flies into incubating the wasp’s eggs.

News on mesozoic era. Date. 6 hours 12 hours 1 day 3 days all. Rank. ... Linyi University and Wageningen University has found evidence that the evolution of insect-eating birds likely drove ...

A scientific illustration of an ancient insect creating gall-like structures on an extinct Jurassic plant, Anomozamites sinensis, of the Mesozoic Era. One of these galls is enlarged to show the ...

The common ancestor of the mammaliaformes would have looked something like Morganucodon– a small, insect-eating generalist that scurried through the undergrowth of the Late Triassic, around 200 ...

A nearly 100 million-year-old firefly fossilized in amber sheds light on how the bioluminescent insects evolved during the time of dinosaurs, a new study finds.

A nearly 100 million-year-old firefly fossilized in amber sheds light on how the bioluminescent insects evolved during the time of dinosaurs, a new study finds.

A strange fossil firefly found trapped in amber in Myanmar is shedding new light on the origin of glowing insects, scientists say. Several deepsea fish, mushrooms and insects are capable of ...

The amber itself is remarkably clear, revealing the insect in exquisite detail. Based on its physical characteristics, the researchers were able to identify the specimen as a female belonging to ...