How did insect wings originate? This is a question that represents an unsolved mystery of insect evolution. Despite many years of research, it is still not entirely clear from which body structure ...

A new study combining genomic analyses and fossil evidence sheds light on the century-old "Palaeoptera Problem," a longstanding debate over the evolutionary relationships among major groups of winged ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tarragoilus diuturnus (a living member of the Prophalangopsidae) displaying call oscillogram and acoustic spectral energy. (CREDIT ...

About 350 million years ago, our planet witnessed the evolution of the first flying creatures. They are still around, and some of them continue to annoy us with their buzzing. While scientists have ...

Different insects flap their wings in different manners. Understanding the variations between these modes of flight may help scientists design better and more efficient flying robots in the future.

Scientists undertook a study of dragonfly wings in order to better understand the relationship between a corrugated wing structure and vortex motions. They discovered that corrugated wings exhibit ...

The forests of the Jurassic are silent to us now. Fossils preserve bones, shells and sometimes remarkably delicate wings, but the calls and songs that once filled those landscapes vanished almost as ...