Bees have never been documented nesting inside animal bone in the history of paleontology, until researchers found six nests stacked inside one 20,000-year-old tooth socket

Bees have never been documented nesting inside animal bone in the history of paleontology, until researchers found six nests stacked inside one 20,000-year-old tooth socket

Inside a single fossilised tooth socket in a Dominican Republic cave, researchers found not one bee nest but six, stacked one after another across what was likely thousands of years of intermittent use. It is a nesting behaviour with no prior record anywhere in the fossil literature: bees, building inside animal bone. The findings are described in a paper titled “Trace fossils within mammal remains reveal novel bee nesting behaviour”, published …