Tag: Fossil

Eoplatypleura messelensis not only represents one of the earliest known Cicadidae fossil from the Eurasian continent, but also the oldest confirmed record of the subfamily Cicadinae worldwide to date. The ...

Paleontologists have described the oldest known member of Haidomyrmecinae -- an extinct subfamily of ants that only lived during the Cretaceous period -- preserved as a rock impression in the ...

Paleontologists in the United States have uncovered the fossilized remains of a new species of sauropodomorph dinosaur that lived in the northern hemisphere (supercontinent Laurasia) during the Carnian age of ...

Paleontologists have described a new species of the extant bee genus Leioproctus from a fossil specimen found in southern New Zealand. The post 14.6-Million-Year-Old Bee Fossil Found in New Zealand ...