Jul 2021
A grasshopper-like creature’s fossilized wing suggests it could crackle and reflect light
Insects had flashy, noise-making wings as early as 310 million years ago
Dec 2019
Fossils in amber push the origin of feather-feeding insects back over 50 million years
Licelike insects munched on dinosaur feathers around 100 million years ago
Sep 2023
3-D scan reveals the consumed remains of shells, sea urchin–like creatures and other bottom-dwellers
A one-of-a-kind trilobite fossil hints at what and how these creatures ate
Jun 2020
Animals that lived over 500 million years ago may have stolen food from their hosts’ mouths
These tube-shaped creatures may be the earliest known parasites