A remarkable 151-million-year-old fly fossil found in China is changing our view of insect evolution. This ancient insect, preserved in amber, shows unique features not seen in modern species. Its ...

An evolutionary ‘air race’ may have been taking place in forests during the age of dinosaurs. Fossils of giant cicadas show how they developed improved flight abilities following the evolution of ...

Scientist David E Alexander has researched ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Kansas. Speaking to Srijana Mitra Das at Times Evoke, he discusses flying creatures — and how their ...

Classification of insects and their wingbeat kinematics -- Wingbeats and vorticity -- Evolution of flight in the insect orders -- Problems of endopterygote insect wing functional morphology -- ...

The way bugs and birds flap their wings may look effortless, but the dynamics that keep them aloft are dizzyingly complex and difficult to quantify. Cornell researchers have created a computational ...

Flight may be one of evolution’s most iconic innovations, but zoologist Piotr Jablonski is convinced that early wings were first meant to be seen, not to fly. The idea came to Jablonski after studying ...