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 ...

Stick insects keep evolving to have the same strange body plans over and over again, scientists have discovered. This ...

A genomic study reveals that butterflies originated in what is present-day western North America or Central America 1. The insects evolved around 100 million years ago after flowering plants ...

Delias sambawana, a butterfly that hails from Indonesia, at the Florida Museum of Natural History. Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace and phylogeny by Hillis, Zwickl, and Gutell When Akito Kawahara ...

Insects have been incredibly successful in developing ways of flying, with an ultra-fast flapping mode that scientists thought had evolved multiple times over history. Now, researchers have ...

It is generally believed that, for millions of years, bats and the insects they hunt at night have adapted to each other in an evolutionary arms race to become better at finding or avoiding each other ...

Flight is one of nature’s greatest achievements, but how did it first begin? This video explores the evolution of flight, from insects and pterosaurs to modern birds, and how it reshaped life on Earth ...

Researchers have found that stick insects keep evolving the same 20 body plans, from the "tree lobster'" to the "bark hugger" and the "large-headed stick." When you purchase through links on our site, ...