“They probably used their mandibles (mouthparts) to handle their prey in a specific way,” Lepeco said. Its mandibles moved up and down and not side to side, as they do in today’s ants.

"It is now clear that two contrasting hominin groups – small-toothed Neanderthals with tall but gracile mandibles and large-toothed Denisovans with low but robust mandibles coexisted during the ...

Imaging of a 113-million-year-old ant fossil reveals complex, specialized mandibles, showing advanced predatory traits much earlier in ant evolution than expected. A 113-million-year-old hell ant that ...

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Researchers have determined that a mysterious jawbone discovered on the seafloor off the coast of Taiwan was Denisovan, proving that the archaic humans were distributed widely over Asia.

The Asian giant hornet, also known as the murder hornet, kills bees by decapitating them with their huge mandibles. Most bees sting, which is enough for some people to consider them dangerous. But ...