A 324-million-year-old fossil from Texas offers new insights into early insect evolution. This ancient creature possessed an ...

In most developing tissues, signals called morphogens act like lighthouses, guiding nearby cells toward their fate and telling them what to become. Each cell relies on such signals for organized ...

With artificial intelligence and careful modeling of fossilized wings, researchers reproduced how some extinct, katydid-like ...

Understanding the evolution of insect mating behavior is essential for explaining how early insects adapted to life on land. A new study examines Petrobiellus akkesiensis, a rare jumping bristletail, ...

An amphibious phase appears to have been an important step in this transition, providing insects with a bridge between ...

Time travel with insects -- The buggy planet -- Rise of the arthropods -- The Cambrian period, 541-485 million years ago, and the Ordovician period, 485-444 million years ago -- Silurian landfall -- ...

Their 400-million-year history of diversification has produced well over 900,000 living and named insect species, plus countless unnamed ones. Their evolution is a huge success story out of which ...

"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 ...

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.