A fossil of a "hell ant" has just been identified as the oldest ever discovered. This finding sheds new light on the early ...

So much so, they murdered four of his fellow sailors, forcing the shocked navigator to flee the land and return home without ...

Scientists in Brazil found a very old ant fossil. This fossil is 113 million years old. It is of a 'hell ant,' a type of ...

A fossilised 113-million-year-old hell ant from Brazil adds to the evidence that the first ants evolved in the southern ...

Researchers have discovered a never-before-seen species of "hell ant" that lived 113 million years ago, making it the oldest ...

More than 230 million years ago, long before giant dinosaurs thundered across Earth, a chicken-sized creature walked near the ...

The Western Ghats are arguably far more diverse and rich in animal and plant life, which is where top biological and genetic ...

Beneath the turquoise waters of the South Pacific hides a massive secret—Zealandia, a sunken landmass stretching nearly two ...

In a recent study, investigators used powerful climate models to show how a future supercontinent, called Pangea Ultima, might alter global conditions. Projections suggest a much hotter and drier ...

This is the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP), and the activity was part of the ancient supercontinent of Pangea breaking up. As the land mass divided, lava was released, emitting massive ...

An incredible effort has been made to map the mystery missing continent of Zealandia which was only recently discovered ...

The continents, as they are today, didn’t exist all those hundreds of millions of years ago until the supercontinent Pangaea broke. As North America shifted away, the site of the modern-day ...