Scientific consensus is that high oxygen levels allowed these humongous fliers to exist, but a new study throws that idea ...

"Even though moths and butterflies are a well-studied group, we're just now beginning to understand some of the most basic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fossils from Australia’s Talbragar beds reveal the oldest known midges in the Southern Hemisphere. (CREDIT: Gondwana Research) ...

A 113-million-year-old hell ant fossil discovered in northeastern Brazil's Crato Formation represents the oldest known ant specimen in the fossil record. The remarkable preservation reveals ...

entmain copy 39088019137645 purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "Insect Metamorphosis: From Natural History to Regulation of Development and Evolution explores the origin of ...

Fossil relatives of dragonflies, known as griffinflies, had wingspans of 70 centimeters (28 inches) 300 million years ago, and they weren’t the era’s only insects that far exceeded their modern ...

Researchers have discovered that plants benefit from a greater variety of interactions with pollinators and herbivores. Plants that are pollinated by insects and have to defend themselves against ...

"This book is published on the occasion of the Royal Entomological Society's International Symposium on 'The Evolution of Insect Mating Systems' in St. Andrews, September 4-6, 2013. All symposium ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Water striders are the only insect that live entirely on the ocean’s surface. By some estimates, insects make up 80 percent of ...

Snow flies survive freezing using antifreeze proteins and internal heat, showing how life adapts to extreme cold conditions.