Researchers analyzed the fossils using optical microscopes, looking both at the fungi and the insects they had infected. Then ...

Paleontologists have identified a new ancient reptile from the Solnhofen limestone slabs, thanks to a chance discovery. A ...

Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...

The specimens were discovered by researchers at Yunnan University in China, who used microscopes and 3D imaging to study the ...

Paleontologist Andre LuJan had an assist from nature with his latest exciting fossil find. Heavy rains helped expose a nearly complete skull of an enormous ancient salamander-like creature in a quarry ...

The Last of Us zombie fungus hijacked minds even as early as dinosaur era, scientists find - Fungal fossils trapped in amber reveal insights about parasite’s early host shifts ...

A new dinosaur species unearthed from the famed Morrison Formation in Colorado has been identified, according to a journal ...

"We have discovered a galaxy that has been 'perfectly preserved' for billions of years, a true archaeological find that tells ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of dinosaur — one that was dog-sized and roamed what is now the United States around ...

An ant and fly from the Cretaceous period offer insights into the history of Ophiocordyceps, the fungal parasite made popular ...

Long before humans walked the Earth, while dinosaurs were still roaming the land, a parasitic fungus hijacked the mind of a ...

This week, see zombie fungi trapped in an amber fossil, explore the sun’s hidden south pole, meet tool-using whales that ...