The vast majority of living insects either have wings or evolved from flying ancestors, said Linz, an evolutionary biologist now at Indiana University. “When the average person thinks about an insect ...

Skoltech and MSU scientists have uncovered the advantage gained by microscopic bugs from their featherlike wings that are unlike those of dragonflies, bees, mosquitoes and other familiar insects. A ...

Laurie Pierrel, however, can't escape them. As one of the Houston Museum of Natural Science's two entomologists, she just can't get enough of the little critters. "When people think of bugs, a lot of ...

Scientists have discovered a new insect order from the Lower Cretaceous of South America. The spectacular fossils were named Coxoplectoptera by their discoverers and represent extinct relatives of ...

Insect "Frankensteins" have been discovered among fossils from a deposit in Brazil. The prehistoric creatures had the wings and middle-body segments of a dragonfly's, wing veins arranged like a mayfly ...

Scientists have uncovered what they are calling the oldest full-body impression of a flying insect, possibly an ancient mayfly. "[The fossil] captures a moment in time over 300 million years ago when ...