Stick insects keep evolving to have the same strange body plans over and over again, scientists have discovered. This evolutionary blueprint has enabled researchers to predict the critters' next ...

Cities are known to shape the evolution of wildlife within them, but according to a study of European cities published in the ...

entmain copy 39088019137645 purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Contents 1. The evolution of ideas on insect metamorphosis -- 2. A spectacular diversity of forms and ...

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 -- ...

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Scientists have uncovered a 151-million-year-old midge fossil in Australia that challenges long-held views about insect evolution. Named Telmatomyia talbragarica, the fossil shows freshwater ...

A variety of photonic mechanisms give rise to iridescence and other structural colors in insects. In weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea), iridescence is created by the most complex of these ...

Understanding the material basis of adaptive evolution has been a central goal in biology dating back to at least the time of Darwin. One focus of current debates is whether adaptive evolution relies ...

Researchers from the University of Konstanz have studied how insect brains take in complex light stimuli and process them in ...

A new study on the mating behavior of jumping bristletail (Petrobiellus akkesiensis) reports the first documented case of direct sperm transfer via genital coupling in apterygote hexapods. The study ...