Paleoinsect Research

11/03/2021

Even bees are smarter than we are!

Honeybees are a sociable species that benefit from sharing tasks and interactions like mutual grooming, but when such social activities raise the danger of infection, the bees seem to have evolved to balance the risks and benefits by employing social distancing.

03/28/2021

Archaeologists have discovered a 3,200-year-old mural of a spider god at an ancient temple complex in northern Peru.

02/25/2021

The insects are closely related to dragonflies and damselflies and have been named "Cephalozygoptera," meaning "head damselfly." While they look like modern damselflies, they have quite differently shaped heads.

01/29/2021

Amazing preservation!

Two British insects shut away in a museum drawer for over four decades are nearly 4,000 years old.

10/05/2020

Talk to your bees, folks!

The Adorable Custom of ‘Telling The Bees’ Kaushik Patowary Apr 23, 2019 0 comments The bee friend, a painting by Hans Thoma (1839–1924) There was a time when almost every rural British family who kept bees followed a strange tradition. Whenever there was a death in the family, someone had to g...

08/25/2020

Miraculously well-preserved leaves from a 23-million-year old forest are revealing to scientists how Earth’s plant species might respond to rising levels o

08/18/2020

Already Organisms that lived 429 million years ago could have well-developed eyes. Their structure corresponded to the eyes of modern insects.

08/18/2020

Not an insect, but still interesting!

Scientists studying the body of a perfectly preserved Ice Age puppy have made an unexpected discovery -- a piece of what could be one of the last woolly rhinos inside its stomach.

08/06/2020

I'll betcha didn't know that, didja?

08/02/2020

Bees can act as tiny pollution detectors, say researchers, who found higher but still safe lead levels in honey gathered downwind of the cathedral.