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

Zombie fungi were already controlling insects 100 million years ago, according to a recent study of fossils trapped in ...

A Post Office manager claims he was left traumatised after biting into a Tesco sandwich and finding a live cockroach ...

Sim RimWorld The new Rimworld expansion adds therapy pandas, tameable insect hive queens, nanotech-enhanced alligators, prehistoric beasts, giant toads, flamingos, and something called a 'bog ...

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

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

An astonishing, 47 million-year-old find: scientists in Germany have uncovered and identified the fossil of a true cicada. It ...

Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers report that fossilized entomopathogenic fungi from mid-Cretaceous amber reveal some of the oldest direct evidence of parasitic relationships between fungi ...

Eoplatypleura messelensis is the oldest known true cicada ever identified in Europe. For the first time, a fossilized true cicada has been identified from the Messel Pit deposits. Eoplatypleura messel ...

A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Powell Gardens’ beloved summer celebration, Festival of Butterflies, returns next week. From July 17 ...

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human ...