Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A fossil find has redefined ancient insect ingenuity. Paleontologists have uncovered evidence that solitary bees, 20,000 years ago ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the first time, bees were recorded using bones to nest and lay eggs in a Caribbean cave. - Courtesy of Lazaro Viñola López ...

The discovery, preserved in regurgitated pellets and fossilized bone, reveals a behavior that has never been documented before in living or extinct bees. It also opens a rare window into how insects, ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

(CNN) — Contrary to popular depictions of bee nests as large, intricate hives that hang from trees, the majority of bee species — about 90% — are actually solitary and build their nests in the ground ...

But researchers recently discovered what is perhaps one of the most peculiar nesting spots: Inside a limestone cave on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, a hoard of fossilized bones — some from ...