In the video game The Last of Us and its spin-off HBO series, humans fight to survive against cordyceps, a parasitic fungus ...

An ant and fly from the Cretaceous period offer insights into the history of Ophiocordyceps, the fungal parasite made popular ...

Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers report that fossilized entomopathogenic fungi from mid-Cretaceous amber reveal some ...

During an excavation on Morocco’s Mogador Island, archaeologists discovered two Early Cretaceous fossils estimated to be between 145 and 140 million years old that were mixed in with ancient Roman ...

The Museum of the Rockies has unveiled its new exhibit, "Cretaceous Crossroads," featuring Montana's state fossil, Miasora, ...

Squids first appeared about 100 million years ago and quickly rose to become dominant predators in the ancient oceans, ...

Fossils described in a new study speak to a previously unknown large-bodied lizard diversity that existed alongside dinosaurs ...

The fossils, found at Big Bend National Park in Texas, belong to a group of ancient near-marsupials from the Paleocene period ...

Paleontologists uncovered another rare fossil in Texas. This time, it's a 60-million-year-old fossil of a giant possum-like ...

A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body ...

An international study reveals surprising bird nesting activity in the Arctic during the Late Cretaceous period. Fossils from Alaska show birds were breeding there 73 million years ago.

Sauropods were the largest land-living animals of all time. Finding the traces of a sauropod’s last meal is nothing short of ...