Million-Year-Old Fossil of a Female Bee Well Preserved in Organic Mudstone Discovered, Oldest Bee Specimen Bees are mostly ...

I n the lush, fossil-rich Hindon Maar Complex of New Zealand’s South Island, scientists have uncovered a 14.6-million-year-old bee fossil, the first of its kind ever found in Zealandia—the ...

14 million year old bee fossil found on the ancient continent of Zealandia. Credit: Michael S. Engel and Uwe Kaulfuss The fossil was discovered at the Hindon Maar site, an exceptional paleontological ...

Paleontologists in New Zealand discovered a 14.6-million-year-old bee fossil named Leioproctus barrydonovani, marking the oldest bee specimen ever recovered and the first of its kind found in the ...

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Two other major prehistoric discoveries have been made on the Isle of Skye: young and adult Krusatodons showing how dinosaurs ...