WASHINGTON (AP) - Scientists have found a few ancient insects frozen in what is Earth's oldest bug trap. Two microscopic mites and much of one fly were discovered preserved in tree resin. At 230 ...

Prehistoric dinosaur birds preferred to snack on insects instead of fish, a new study has revealed. It had been believed that the 120 million-year-old Longipterygidae family's long beaks with sharp ...

Many horror movies play on people’s worst fears—giant bugs. But, did you know that during the Age of Dinosaurs, there were some freakishly large bugs roaming the Earth? Unlike the movies, these creepy ...

Step back to the age of giant insects and see what life was like during this prehistoric era.

Back in 1948, when he was just a boy, Beattie was vacationing with his family in New South Wales when he came upon a shell embedded in a rock. He soon learned that this rock was actually a Permian ...

Meet the cat-sized prehistoric scorpion with deadly venom, huge eyes and strong pincers that ruled Carboniferous forests ...

The fossils of the now-extinct worms had been tucked away for decades in the University of Kansas paleontology collection before researchers reexamined them. Missouri researchers have identified a new ...

Scientists may not yet have the technology to bring back the dead, but one post circulating on social media claims worms frozen for more than a millennium came back to life after a simple thaw.

Bobbit worms explode out of tunnels on the ocean floor to ambush prey. According to a new study, these worms had 6-foot-long carnivorous ancestors that burrowed under the Pacific Ocean. Researchers ...