entmain copy 39088019137645 purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "Insect Metamorphosis: From Natural History to Regulation of Development and Evolution explores the origin of ...

Deep under the Jurassic rock beds of New South Wales, scientists discovered fossilized insects that push back the history of one of the world’s most hardy families of flies. These fragile traces, ...

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Time travel with insects -- The buggy planet -- Rise of the arthropods -- The Cambrian period, 541-485 million years ago, and the Ordovician period, 485-444 million years ago -- Silurian landfall -- ...

A team of biologists in Montana and Germany has found that, regardless of type, those insects that express a protective stick- or leaf-like appearance all evolved the same basic body parts. In their ...

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Understanding the evolution of insect mating behavior is essential for explaining how early insects adapted to life on land. A new study examines Petrobiellus akkesiensis, a rare jumping bristletail, ...

Giant prehistoric insects, some with two-foot wingspans, once roamed Earth. For years, scientists believed higher oxygen ...