Often feared, but fascinating up close — the European hornet calmly drinks sweet oak sap. Discover this peaceful side of a powerful forest insect, captured in detail among bark and sunlight.

Greenland’s ice-covered landscape looks like an immovable block on satellite maps. Yet the story beneath its center suggests ...

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

The cordyceps species in "The Last of Us," Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, is real and does exactly what the show purports —just ...

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

A 47-million-year-old cicada fossil has been discovered in Europe.

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 ...

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 ...

But a recent fossil discovery near Frankfurt, Germany is helping expand our knowledge of the bug’s evolution—and it appears to be the earliest example of the Cicadinae subfamily ever found.

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.

Researchers find oldest ant known to science—113-million-year-old ‘hell ant’ with scythe jaws This fossil is 13 million years older than any ant fossil found before—and reveals a ...