Spiders have a reputation for being fearsome, freaky nightmare fuel, but some 100 million years ago, a baby insect existed that kept the arachnids up at night.
Preserved feathers and tissue provide a picture of hatchlings from the Cretaceous.
An international team of paleontologists has discovered the oldest known examples of ‘fungus gardens’ within 25 million-year-old fossilized termite nests from southwestern Tanzania.
A crocodile-sized creature that lived 242 million years ago was the first known vegetarian marine reptile, according to new fossil evidence.
