The rise of insects was a factor in the downfall of dinosaurs, a new book argues. It wasn't just the bugs themselves, but also the diseases they carried and their impact on vegetation that led to the ...

Paleontologists have discovered that feathered dinosaurs were eaten alive by lice-like insects, according to a new study. The researchers looked at pieces of amber, roughly 99 million years old, and ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Asteroid impacts or massive volcanic flows might have occurred around the time dinosaurs became extinct, but a new book argues that the mightiest creatures the world has ever known ...

Feathered dinosaurs were annoyed by tiny pests that are still familiar to many schoolchildren -- and their horrified parents -- today: lice. Scientists discovered previously unknown tiny insects ...

After the asteroid impact at the end of the Cretaceous period that triggered the dinosaurs' extinction and ushered in the Paleocene, leaf-mining insects in the western United States completely ...

It takes a gutsy insect to sneak up on a huge dinosaur while it sleeps, crawl onto its soft underbelly and give it a bite that might have felt like a needle going in -- but giant "flea-like" animals, ...

Remains of an insect that lived 100 million years ago during the time of the dinosaurs were found preserved in amber. The species has an alien-like appearance and features that researchers think ...

CORVALLIS -- Back in the days of Tyrannosaurus Rex, bugs didn't pick on critters their own size. Dinosaurs would do just as well, and an upcoming book by two Corvallis scientists says bugs with ...

Feathered dinosaurs, including early birds, may have dealt with pests similar to lice around 100 million years ago. A newfound ancient insect species, dubbed Mesophthirus engeli, was found preserved ...

With massive dinosaurs towering above, tiny female insects called thrips had just dusted themselves with hundreds of pollen grains from a gingko tree more than 100 million years ago when they perished ...

A new group of creepy-crawly creatures are moving into the Philadelphia Zoo this spring, including a 10-foot-tall stink bug that actually stinks. The new exhibit, Staying Power: Be Distinct or Go ...