How these 99 million-year-old specimens trapped in amber survived the dinosaur extinction event is unclear, though cockroaches are notoriously resilient.

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

Scientists in the United Kingdom have found a cockroach fossil dating back to 180 million years. This new genus and species of Jurassic cockroach, Alderblattina simmsi was discovered after an ...

How to classify an insect as pollinator? Studying such a complex process as insect pollination through the fossil record is a challenge in palaeontology.

Meet the Scientist Studying ‘Fossil Snapshots’ of Ancient Insect Life Paleobiologist Scott Lakeram analyzes 300-million-year-old coal ball fossils to reveal prehistoric plant-insect ...

The specimen is also the first fossil cockroach to be found with sperm cells. “It is well preserved with a yellow cross bar across the wings and a central, vertical, yellow stripe that appears ...

Two bits of amber discovered in a lab basement hold ancient evidence of a fungi famous for controlling the minds of its victims.

A prehistoric hell ant that lived among dinosaurs 113 million years ago had an unusual way to kill its prey and sheds new light on insect evolution, researchers have found.

The cockroach, reviled around the world for its sickness-causing potential and general creepiness, now occupies an important position in the study of amber fossils, thanks to research by an Oregon ...

A researcher at Oregon State University has identified a new species of ancient cockroach preserved in amber.