Three hundred million years ago, dragonfly-like creatures with wingspans stretching 70 centimeters patrolled the skies of a world nothing like our own. These griffinflies, as paleontologists call them ...

Imagine a dragonfly with a two-foot wingspan whizzing by your head. That was prehistoric Earth, and scientists just realised they've had the wrong explanation all along. Some 300 million years ago, ...

Little is known about the sounds of the natural environment that dinosaurs inhabited millions of years ago in Jurassic forests, or the exact noises some of these creatures made, but scientists just ...

Israeli and Chinese researchers have uncovered an unusual feeding organ that may have helped an insect survive in harsh prehistoric forests approximately 100 million years ago, Israel's Tel Aviv ...

Earlier this summer, researchers announced they found fossils that likely come from courting dinosaurs. To find more fossil evidence of prehistoric animals wooing and mating, scientists will have to ...

What did the world sound like 165 million years ago? Researchers have recreated the chirping songs of prehistoric insects.

Dragonflies and damselflies have been flying across Earth for more than 200 million years. They appeared long before the dinosaurs and survived every mass extinction that followed. They have survived ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing a fresh glimpse into life on Earth at a time when flowering plants ...

Learn what amber fossils can teach us about ancient ecosystems and prehistoric insects. About 99,000 million years ago, some ants were going about their daily business when they were entrapped in an ...

Scientists have unearthed prehistoric insects preserved in amber in South America for the first time, offering an unprecedented glimpse into a pivotal era when flowering plants began to flourish ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The griffinfly, now extinct, once stretched its wings nearly 70 centimeters wide. (CREDIT: Werner Kraus / Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0 ...