Paleontologists working in a cave on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola have discovered the first-known instance of ancient ...

In a paleontological first, researchers have discovered that bees used the jawbones of now extinct mammals as burrows. When ...

Burrowing bees generally prefer to make their nests in the open, but some 20,000 years ago their ancestors lived in a cave ...

While cleaning fossils retrieved from a cave on a Caribbean island, a researcher noticed something strange in the hollow ...

Bees are fantastic pollinators. Without them, ecosystems would not thrive. Unfortunately, over the last 15 years, there has ...

Bees are frequently associated with large queen-serving colonies featuring hundreds if not thousands of insects. In actuality ...

A cave in the Dominican Republic concealed thousands of years worth of animal bones that had been turned into nests by ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) -While honey bees nest in trees and bumble bees nest in the ground, carpenter bees nest in wood. Most carpenter bees spend their time around dead wood. They get their name from ...

Scientists made a unique discovery in a cave on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola: dozens of fossilized bee nests inside rodent bones that were deposited by owls thousands of years ago.

The floor of the Cueva de Mono, a cave in the Dominican Republic, is a gruesome graveyard. For thousands of years, it served ...

Generations of ancient, solitary bees made a home within the tooth holes of a fossilized jawbone, which was recently ...

For the first time ever, paleontologists have found fossil traces of burrowing bees nesting inside the buried bones of other ...