Ant and Termite Fossils Indicate Advanced Sociality 100 Million Years Ago
Insects that are “eusocial” live in colonies with closely related nestmates and display social behavior, including a division of labor. The best-known examples are honey bees, termites, and ants. All […]
Ant Fossils from Europe Resemble Modern Asian Ants
Professor Evan Economo of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University and his team have compared a database of modern ants with a database of fossil ants. The […]
Fossilized Tick Provides Evidence that Lyme Disease is Millions of Years Older than Humans
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that there about 300,000 cases of Lyme disease in the U.S. each year. The stealthy, often misdiagnosed disease was discovered nearly […]
New Species of Big-headed Flies Discovered in Eocene Epoch Fossil Beds
Scientists recently discovered three new, extinct fossil species of big-headed flies. The fossils show their early evolution parallels an ecological revolution, one that formed the character of our modern natural […]