From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The authors of the paper published in Nature Ecology & Evolution are Heather Bruce and Nipham Patel, who work as researchers at the Marine Biological Research Institute (MBL) at the University of ...

(Credit: MakroBetz/Shutterstock) Before they flew, winged insects had to learn to glide. Scientists say they've puzzled out the evolutionary path that gave insects wings, settling what had been a ...

'Frankenstein' insects dating back 120 million years have been discovered among fossils from Brazil. The monster bugs had the wings and body of a dragonfly, wing veins like those of a mayfly and a ...

Scientist David E Alexander has researched ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Kansas. Speaking to Srijana Mitra Das at Times Evoke, he discusses flying creatures — and how their ...

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 ...

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

Classification of insects and their wingbeat kinematics -- Wingbeats and vorticity -- Evolution of flight in the insect orders -- Problems of endopterygote insect wing functional morphology -- ...

Scientists are unraveling the secrets behind insect flight, revealing the complex mechanics of their wing hinges. Caltech researchers, led by Professor Michael Dickinson, discovered that 12 tiny ...

Flightless insects evolve on windy islands, just as Charles Darwin claimed — although for reasons that are slightly different to those proposed by the naturalist. Darwin argued some 160 years ago that ...