Insects dominate this world. More than 70 percent of the described species on Earth are insects. What made them so successful? Their wing, says Yoshi Tomoyasu, associate professor of biology at Miami ...

Researchers at the University of Michigan are currently working on a line of cyborg insects that would use the energy generated from their own wing motion to power sensors installed in tiny insect ...

Around 165 million years ago, some insects in what is now northeastern China developed an extraordinary trick: they evolved ...

WOODS HOLE, Mass. - It sounds like a "Just So Story" - "How the Insect Got its Wings" - but it's really a mystery that has puzzled biologists for over a century. Intriguing and competing theories of ...

About 350 million years ago, our planet witnessed the evolution of the first flying creatures. They are still around, and some of them continue to annoy us with their buzzing. While scientists have ...

Diagram showing the relationships between genes, leg segments and wings. (Heather Bruce) (CN) — Long before they flew, the ancestors of insects crawled across the ocean floor. How they evolved wings ...

Genes from a tiny shrimp-like crustacean could help in the search for the origin of insect wings, a new study finds. To be clear, there is no evidence that any crustaceans ever evolved to fly, ...

A research team led by Prof. Huang Diying from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of ...