66 Interesting Facts About Animals That You Probably Never Heard Of

Honey badgers are not actually named for their love of honey, in fact, they raid bee hives to loot the delicious, ...

Discovery of ancient bee nests in fossils points to a never-before-seen behavior

In a Caribbean cave, researchers discovered hundreds of fossils with bee nests within them. It is the first time this behavior has been recorded, a new study finds.
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Ancient Bees Turned a Gruesome Bone Graveyard into a Cozy Home

The floor of the Cueva de Mono, a cave in the Dominican Republic, is a gruesome graveyard. For thousands of years, it served ...
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Fossilized bee nests found inside ancient animal bones

Could the strangest bee nursery ever recorded in history have existed inside the skeleton of another creature? This is exactly what paleontologists have discovered in a limestone cave on the Caribbean ...
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First-known instance of bees laying eggs in fossilized tooth sockets discovered in 20,000-year-old bones

Nature can be pretty metal when it wants, and a testament to this is the recent discovery that bees sometimes use hollowed ...