Dinosaur DNA may still be out of reach, but scientists are uncovering something almost as exciting—ancient blood vessels ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a steamy tropical forest 46 million years ago, a prehistoric mosquito bit a critter, drew blood and was blown into a lake in what is now northwestern Montana. Belly full, she died ...

Blood vessel structures found preserved in a famous T rex fossil are helping scientists understand how dinosaurs healed from injuries. A study published recently in the journal Scientific Reports ...

It's the beginning of the spooky season, which means ghouls, ghosts, and bloodsuckers abound. One of the most famous bloodsuckers in nature is, of course, the leech. These parasites feed on blood and ...

Palaeontologists have achieved a remarkable feat by using advanced X-ray technology to examine a 66-million-year-old injury ...

Scientists found preserved blood vessel structures in a T. rex fossil, offering new insight into dinosaur healing and fossilization.

Tyrannosaurus rex holotype specimen at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh. — ScottRobertAnselmo — CC BY-SA 3.0 Tyrannosaurus rex holotype specimen at the Carnegie Museum of Natural ...

For World Mosquito Day, meet the “one in a million” fossil that proved fossilized blood is more than just science fiction Jack Tamisiea The mosquito fossils from northwestern Montana, like the ...

When it comes to dinosaurs, many of us think of towering skeletons dominating the atriums of the world's great natural history museums. But it's the tiniest fossils that have transformed paleontology ...

The preserved insects, from a cache of Lebanese resin, appear to be male but have mouth parts that are found only on modern female mosquitoes. By Kate Golembiewski Every single mosquito that’s ever ...

Everything old is new again: These paleontological discoveries of 2025 — from tiny dinosaurs to zombifying fungi — opened up brand-new insights into the distant past. Earth resonated with the song of ...