How did insect wings originate? This is a question that represents an unsolved mystery of insect evolution. Despite many years of research, it is still not entirely clear from which body structure ...

The vast majority of living insects either have wings or evolved from flying ancestors, said Linz, an evolutionary biologist now at Indiana University. “When the average person thinks about an insect ...

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Given that the mere sight of bugs can make some people squirm, it's perhaps ironic that the key to unlocking medical advances in vision could be hiding in the wings of insects. According to a press ...

Insect wings represent a pivotal evolutionary innovation that has underpinned the remarkable radiation of the Insecta. This field, at the intersection of evolution and developmental biology (evo-devo) ...

Insect "Frankensteins" have been discovered among fossils from a deposit in Brazil. The prehistoric creatures had the wings and middle-body segments of a dragonfly's, wing veins arranged like a mayfly ...

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 ...

Keeping surfaces bacteria-free is particularly important when it comes to medical devices and implants. In a move that could replace the use of biocidal coatings and antibiotic drugs in such ...

Dec. 1 (UPI) --Combining old studies with novel genomic analysis, researchers have finally figured out how insects first developed wings. According to a new paper published Tuesday in the journal ...

For this study, Tomoyasu and his colleagues edited the genes of the Tribolium beetle so that it would partially grow a wing on its abdomen — a place beetles don’t usually have wings. As a result, they ...