Ancient bees built nests in the hollows of rodent skulls, a new study suggests L. Viñola López et al., Royal Society Open Science, 2025 under CC BY 4.0 People often appreciate fossils for the insights ...
(CNN) — Contrary to popular depictions of bee nests as large, intricate hives that hang from trees, the majority of bee species — about 90% — are actually solitary and build their nests in the ground ...
A cave in the Dominican Republic concealed thousands of years worth of animal bones that had been turned into nests by prehistoric bees. Scientists believe the hollowed out tooth sockets of fossilized ...
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. When you ...
From left, Francisco López Jiménez, Orit Peleg and graduate student Richard Terrile inspect the honeycomb in a bee hive. On a hot summer day in Colorado, European honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) buzz ...