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Masked bees in Australia and French Polynesia have long-lost relatives in Fiji, suggesting that the bees’ ancestors island hopped.

Some kind of "catastrophic" event, such as a sudden freeze or flood, likely killed all the young adult bees at once, according to a new study

The bees were preserved well enough for researchers to make out small features, like their legs and antennae.

Insects rarely survive in fossilized form, but a strange series of events somehow killed and preserved these brooding bees for millenniums.

Is honey vegan? It tends to be a sticky subject. Here’s what you need to know about why bees make honey and whether or not it’s ethical to eat.

A team led by WSU researchers traced the bee genealogy back more than 120 million years to an ancient supercontinent, Gondwana, which included today’s continents of Africa and South America.

The origin of bees is tens of millions of years older than most previous estimates, a new study shows. A team led by Washington State University researchers traced the bee genealogy back more than 120 million years to an ancient supercontinent, Gondwana, which included today’s continents of Africa and South America.

Is honey vegan? It tends to be a sticky subject. Here’s what you need to know about why bees make honey and whether or not it’s ethical to eat.

Climate change is predicted to alter the path of bee species M. Nuda, which plays an important role in pollination

To many people, bees are an insect designed solely to make grown men shriek. But they serve an important function and their numbers in New York are declining.