Insects first took to the skies about 350 million years ago, some 200 million years before birds first flapped their wings. By the end of the Carboniferous period, 300 million years ago, some flying ...

Three hundred million years ago, dragonfly-like creatures with wingspans stretching 70 centimeters patrolled the skies of a ...

Dragonflies can see deeper red light than humans and this discovery may help scientists develop better medical tools.

Dragonflies may see the world in a way that pushes beyond human limits—and surprisingly, they do it using the same molecular trick we evolved ourselves. Scientists discovered that these insects can ...

Do dragonflies see like humans? Researchers discovered dragonflies use a red-sensing opsin identical to mammals. This study ...

The problem with diffusion is that it’s notoriously slow. The oxygen constraint hypothesis argued that the larger the insect ...

Sometimes, different organisms can evolve the same ability independently, a process called parallel evolution. A new study ...