The bees were preserved well enough for researchers to make out small features, like their legs and antennae.

DNA analysis indicates the world's most common bee originated in northern Europe around 780,000 years ago, before spreading into East Africa and Arabia around 120,000 years later.

Officials say they've eradicated northern giant hornets, nicknamed "murder hornets," after years of tracking the invasive giant wasps in Washington state.

A man escaped death after being stung by a swarm of 1,000 killer bees, yet previous similar incidents have proved fatal. Why do some people survive and others don't?

Flowers use a variety of strategies to inform pollinating insects about their pollen reserves, including color, smell and even electrical changes.

The invasive yellow-legged hornet, which preys on honey bees, has been spotted in Georgia for the first time.

A new study debunks the idea that Neanderthals buried a man on a bed of flowers about 75,000 years ago.

Scientists have built a new type of robotic insect that can fly 100 times longer than previous generations.

A new analysis of inexplicably young stars orbiting extremely close to the Milky Way's black hole heart reveals that they orbit around the gigantic structure in a surprisingly organized way, similar to swarming insects like bees.

Honey owes its long shelf-life to its makers, but it doesn't always last forever.

Just as humans rely on their eyes to make precise movements with their hands, hummingbird hawk-moths use continuous visual feedback to precisely position their proboscis in the center of flowers.

Scientists accidentally discover new species of wasp that lays eggs inside living, adult fruit flies, which then burst from the hosts' abdomens while they're still alive.

American burying beetle parents work together to find and bury a dead animal that its brood can consume after hatching.

Flies are attracted to our pungent "cloud of effervescence," experts say.

Cameras recorded footage in red, blue, green and UV channels simultaneously, with openly available software processing the raw footage and converting it into different kinds of "animal vision," showing us how bees, birds, mice and dogs might see the world.

Researchers have discovered a new insect genus of big, alien-looking parasitic wasps in the Peruvian rainforest, one of the most biodiverse places in the world.

The leading group is so diverse that it represents one in every three animal species on Earth.

Panda ants are actually wasps masquerading as an adorable ant, with black and white females possessing stingers half as long as their entire bodies.

Asian needle ants found in the southeastern states of the U.S. have been spreading north and west for years, but experts now consider them to be a medically important pest and urge caution.

Scientists discovered an enzyme within the ant "blood-brain barrier" that helps control whether an ant ends up a soldier or a forager.

Artificial lights can be deadly to the insects that fly around them, so why do these critters do it?

Bullet and greenhead ants produce toxins they inject with every sting, which prolong nerve signals to the brain and lead to trembling, uncontrollable and long-lasting pain in mammals.

Sun bears often stand upright like humans, and mothers even walk around cradling their babies in their arms.

From chimps that wage war over territory to parrots that outperform Harvard students on memory tests, many other members of the animal kingdom demonstrate surprisingly human-like behavior.

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