A first-ever collaboration between the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian examines the birth of natural history.

The Delaware state bug is the ladybug. The state butterfly is the tiger swallowtail. The state bird, of course, is the blue hen. Delaware doesn't have a state dragonfly, but that's about to change.

A painting of the Bolsover dragonfly, Tupus diluculum, a giant dragonfly-like insect from the Late Carboniferous, 354 to 290 million years ago. ... Dragonfly larvae are ferocious hunters, eating ...

Delaware doesn't have a state dragonfly, but that's about to change. Many Delaware groups, including conservation organizations, state agencies and Sen. Stephanie Hansen, D-Middletown, are ...

There’s something magical about dragonflies. Whether it’s their many-lensed eyes, their captivating flight or their dramatic emergence into a majestic adult form, the insects have grabbed ...