People often appreciate fossils for the insights they reveal about ancient creatures that once roamed the Earth. At some ...

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

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

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.

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

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

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

And, researchers have just discovered, ancient bees would use the bones’ empty tooth sockets as nests. A new study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science documents this discovery, which ...

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 ...

A few years ago, Adrian Carper, who is in my department and also the Museum of Natural History at the University of Colorado Boulder, told me about a species of bee that could chew nest holes into ...