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

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

The tiny insect, fossilized in a chunk of limestone in Brazil, is the oldest known ant specimen ever identified. Even better, ...

A 113-million-year-old ant fossil, Vulcanidris Cratensis, has been identified in a Brazilian museum, making it the oldest ...

A 113-million-year-old hell ant that once lived in northeastern Brazil is now the oldest ant specimen known to science, finds a new report. The hell ant, which was preserved in limestone, is a member ...

A 113-million-year-old fossil of a hell ant has been discovered in northeastern Brazil. This unprecedented find offers new ...

Scientists say it is a member of Haidomyrmecinae - an extinct group that only lived during the Cretaceous period.

Preserved in limestone and dating back 113 million years, the specimen is now the oldest known ant fossil, according to a new ...

Therapsids, the ancient relatives of mammals, once roamed Earth in great numbers during the middle to late Permian period.

Previously, the oldest known ants came from amber in France and Myanmar, dating back about 100 million years. This new ...