WASHINGTON (Reuters) - They looked, as one researcher said, like "rubbish," eight seemingly inconsequential Cretaceous Period dinosaur fossils that sat in a London museum's collection for more than a ...

Fossils can reveal far more than the shapes of ancient creatures. Molecules preserved inside old animal bones provide clues about past diseases, what those animals ate, and the climates they lived in.

With 2025 stomping its way to a close, we’re left to look back at another stunning year of dinosaur discoveries. The year has ...

For World Mosquito Day, meet the “one in a million” fossil that proved fossilized blood is more than just science fiction Jack Tamisiea The mosquito fossils from northwestern Montana, like the ...

When it comes to dinosaurs, many of us think of towering skeletons dominating the atriums of the world's great natural history museums. But it's the tiniest fossils that have transformed paleontology ...

Metabolism quietly governs every living body. It shapes how organisms grow, reproduce, heal, and age. Because metabolism ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a steamy tropical forest 46 million years ago, a prehistoric mosquito bit a critter, drew blood and was blown into a lake in what is now northwestern Montana. Belly full, she died ...

The preserved insects, from a cache of Lebanese resin, appear to be male but have mouth parts that are found only on modern female mosquitoes. By Kate Golembiewski Every single mosquito that’s ever ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a steamy tropical forest 46 million years ago, a prehistoric mosquito bit a critter, drew blood and was blown into a lake in what is now northwestern Montana. Belly full, she died ...