Fossil insect find, Zekuforma maculata, reveals a land-to-water experiment in evolution, rewriting 230 million years of true ...

A student discovers the first dragonfly fossil from the age of the dinosaurs in Canada. Cordualadensa acorni lived 75 million ...

A research team has recreated the evolution of the eye in a physics simulation. The results show why nature chose such ...

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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.

Some ants thrive by choosing numbers over strength. Instead of heavily protecting each worker, they invest fewer resources in ...

Certain signalling proteins, which are responsible for the development of innate immune function in almost all animals are also required for the formation of the dorsal-ventral (back-belly) axis in ...

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

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This news release is available in German. The results, published by scientists from the 1KITE project (1,000 Insect Transcriptome Evolution, http://www.1kite.org ...

Harvard researchers have discovered that cycads—one of the oldest living lineages of seed plants—heat up their reproductive ...