While sea butterflies don’t actually fly, understanding their lift-based swimming is important for underwater engineering.
Three hundred million years ago, dragonfly-like creatures with wingspans stretching 70 centimeters patrolled the skies of a ...
Scientists rethink why giant insects once ruled the skies, finding oxygen may not explain their size or disappearance.
Giant dragonflies once roamed Earth’s skies. New research upends the textbook theory of why they went extinct.
Scientific consensus is that high oxygen levels allowed these humongous fliers to exist, but a new study throws that idea ...
Learn how ancient oxygen levels in the Paleozoic era were linked to giant insect size, and why that theory is now being ...
Fossil relatives of dragonflies, known as griffinflies, had wingspans of 70 centimeters (28 inches) 300 million years ago, ...
A new study maps how mosquitoes fly when hunting humans, showing how visual and chemical cues guide their every move.
A mosquito finds its target with the help of certain cues in its environment, such as a person's silhouette and the carbon ...
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