Understanding the evolution of insect mating behavior is essential for explaining how early insects adapted to life on land.

Fossil insect find, Zekuforma maculata, reveals a land-to-water experiment in evolution, rewriting 230 million years of true ...

Understanding the evolution of insect mating behavior is essential for explaining how early insects adapted to life on land.

A 500million year old insect brain fossil is the oldest of its kind ever discovered by scientists. Hailing the find a 'transformative discovery', experts said the 3in long fossil shows that insects ...

Tokyo, Japan – Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have proposed a hypothesis for why insects are so rare in marine environments. They previously showed that insects evolved a unique ...

Creating a family tree that dates back more than 400 million years and details the evolution of the most diverse group of animals on the planet is no easy feat, but one ambitious group of scientists ...

A new study led by our Earth Sciences department has uncovered an incredibly rare and detailed fossil, named 'Youti yuanshi', that gives a peek inside one of the earliest ancestors of modern insects, ...

A research team has recreated the evolution of the eye in a physics simulation. The results show why nature chose such ...

Different insects flap their wings in different manners. Understanding the variations between these modes of flight may help scientists design better and more efficient flying robots in the future.

Not all insects evolved from a common ancestor as has long been believed, a surprising new genetics study suggests. At least one group of primitive wingless hexapods – six-legged animals – known as ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Imagine yourself transported 150 million years back in time to a Jurassic woodland of ferns and cycads. You think you ...

Creating a family tree that dates back more than 400 million years and details the evolution of the most diverse group of animals on the planet is no easy feat, but one ambitious group of scientists ...