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In research recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Tomoyasu and his co-author, David Linz, genetically engineered beetle larvae with wings on their abdomens, part ...

In 1870, a German anatomist named Karl Gegenbaur was the first person to theorize that abdominal gills on water insects like mayflies eventually developed into wings. For the next 150 years, ...

A study in New Zealand shows how man-made changes to an ecosystem can radically reshape the bodies of insect inhabitants. By Veronique Greenwood New Zealand’s South Island was once covered in thick ...

Different insects flap their wings in different manners. Understanding the variations between these modes of flight may help scientists design better and more efficient flying robots in the future.

(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 ...

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 ...

Dec. 1 (UPI) --Combining old studies with novel genomic analysis, researchers have finally figured out how insects first developed wings. According to a new paper published Tuesday in the journal ...

WOODS HOLE, Mass. - It sounds like a "Just So Story" - "How the Insect Got its Wings" - but it's really a mystery that has puzzled biologists for over a century. Intriguing and competing theories of ...

About 350 million years ago, our planet witnessed the evolution of the first flying creatures. They are still around, and some of them continue to annoy us with their buzzing. While scientists have ...

Genes from a tiny shrimp-like crustacean could help in the search for the origin of insect wings, a new study finds. To be clear, there is no evidence that any crustaceans ever evolved to fly, ...