This week, see zombie fungi trapped in an amber fossil, explore the sun’s hidden south pole, meet tool-using whales that groom each other, and more.

If an ant is the same size, its head wouldn’t be roomy enough for a developing fly. Thailand, for example, is home to an acrobat ant (Crematogaster rogenhoferi) which can be just 2 millimetres long.

(LiveScience) A new fly discovered in Thailand is the world's smallest. It is five times smaller than a fruit fly and tinier than a grain of salt (0.4 millimeters) in length -- half the size of ...

Scientists have discovered two new species of ancient parasitic fungi preserved in amber dating back 99 million years. The fungi were growing out of the bodies of host insects that became trapped in ...

Paleoophiocordyceps gerontoformicae and Paleoophiocordyceps ironomyiae are the names given to two newly discovered ancient ...

A remarkable discovery from mid-Cretaceous amber has pushed back the evolutionary timeline of one of nature’s most bizarre ...

After a new type of phorid fly infests a red imported fire ant, it takes over control of what corresponds to the ant's brain and makes it wander about 50 meters away from the mound. Away from the ...

Subversion Among the ArtsThe U.S. South knows few worse pests than the tiny fire ant, an uninvited guest that came up from South America nearly 50 years ago and settled down for a long visit.The ...

HOUSTON -- A deadly fly parasite reported for the first time recently in honeybees in California and South Dakota has Texas AgriLife Extension Service entomologists concerned. The discovery might ...

The parasite forced all three species of bumblebee to dig, but with varying degrees of success. Around 70 percent of the two-spotted or common eastern bumblebees dug their own graves when infected ...

If an ant is the same size, its head wouldn’t be roomy enough for a developing fly. Thailand, for example, is home to an acrobat ant (Crematogaster rogenhoferi) which can be just 2 millimetres long.