A new study in PLOS Biology of 133 species of flies, mosquitoes and their relatives shows that most species fly in ...

Seven hundred million years ago, a remarkable creature emerged for the first time. Though it may not have been much to look at by today's standards, the animal had a front and a back, a top and a ...

Ch. 1. Flight and the Pterygote Insecta -- Ch. 2. Morphology of the Flight Apparatus -- Ch. 3. Kinematics and Aerodynamics of Flight -- Ch. 4. Energetics and Flight Physiology -- Ch. 5. Stability, ...

Deep under the Jurassic rock beds of New South Wales, scientists discovered fossilized insects that push back the history of one of the world’s most hardy families of flies. These fragile traces, ...

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

These so-called gin-traps sit near the top of the insect, which make them likely models for early wing structures. To add support for the dual origin hypothesis, Linz said, evolution would have had to ...