Some feathered dinosaurs may have lost the ability to fly, revealing that the evolution of flight was far more complex than ...

The researchers think the pattern they observed in ants reflects a more universal trend in the evolution of societal ...

DNA captured on air filters and stored since the 1960s acts as an ecological time capsule, according to a recent publication ...

In its decades-long quest to mimic life, robotics has never had much trouble duplicating its brute force. Machines have long ...

Using weather radar data, researchers estimated that roughly 100 trillion insects are flying above the United States on a ...

Researchers have unveiled a microrobot that flies with speed and agility, mirroring the motion of real insects. These machines could help locate survivors in places humans and larger robots cannot ...

These fragile traces, buried deep under layers of fragile shale once formed by the bed of an old lake, are the oldest known Chironomidae family midges in the Southern Hemisphere. 7 lions to be ...

Deep under the Jurassic rock beds of New South Wales, scientists discovered fossilized insects that push back the history of one of the world’s most hardy families of flies. These fragile traces, ...

Scientists have uncovered a 151-million-year-old midge fossil in Australia that challenges long-held views about insect evolution. Named Telmatomyia talbragarica, the fossil shows freshwater ...

This important study addresses how wing morphology and kinematics change across hoverflies of different body sizes. The authors provide convincing evidence that there is no significant correlation ...