In a Caribbean cave, researchers discovered hundreds of fossils with bee nests within them. It is the first time this ...

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

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.

Learn how environmental constraints and a lack of soil led ancient bees to reuse fossil cavities in a Caribbean cave, leaving ...

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

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

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

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

The strange bee's nest discovered in bone fossils on Hispaniola is a first-of-its-kind discovery that highlights nature’s ...

Curious where bees and wasps go in winter? Learn how these buzzing insects survive the cold months and what happens to hives and nests until spring.