The ancient ancestors of insects probably had relatively symmetrical body segments, each with a pair of legs. These segments have become modified over the millenniums in wildly different ways. In some ...

(CN) — Long before they flew, the ancestors of insects crawled across the ocean floor. How they evolved wings is a question that’s been debated by scientists for more than a century. Some said wings ...

Editor’s Note: This is the first in a four-part series. The Greek translation of insect means cut into segments or segmented, which is a good description of an insect’s body. All insects have three ...

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 ...

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

For decades, researchers have tried to understand how insect wings evolved. It seemed that none of the proposed explanations was complete. Now the question may finally have been answered. Using data ...

MANHATTAN, KAN. -- Susan Brown, an associate professor of biology at Kansas State University, is interested in how evolution generates so much diversity in insects shapes and forms. Take the fruit fly ...

Centipedes and millipedes are frequently mistaken for one another due to their numerous legs and similar names, but they are quite different creatures. Centipedes have flat bodies with one pair of ...