In the last 200 years, scientists have been studying the origin of insect wings using various approaches, such as paleontology, taxonomy and morphology. Tomoyasu uses a relatively new approach, ...

The dream of flying has always fascinated humanity. In evolutionary history, the ability to fly has emerged independently ...

But insect wings evolved so long ago, he adds, “it’s hard to tell what happened”. That hasn’t stopped researchers from trying to figure it out.

Looking at crustaceans for possible wing evolution made more sense to the researchers. “[If] you look in myriapods for where insect wings came from, you won’t find anything,” MBL research ...

Insects took to the empty skies sometime between 300 million and 360 million years ago, long before birds, bats or pterosaurs. Wings allowed them to conquer new habitats and ecological niches, and ...

Winged insects have been around for nearly 400 million years, and the evolution of flight in different insect species influences things like how insects flap their wings, what makes some insects ...

Insect wings are constantly in motion, he said, so they're more like propellers than fixed aircraft wings. In the 1990s, crucial work in the field of insect-flight research was conducted by ...

A closer look at seemingly drab, transparent insect wings has revealed realms of previously unappreciated color, visible to the naked eye yet overlooked for centuries. Until now, the wing colors ...

The wings of cicadas and dragonflies are natural bacteria killers, inspiring scientists who are searching for new ways to defeat drug-resistant superbugs. They've now revealed how bioinspired ...