“Both symbiosis and horizontal gene transfer have profoundly influenced insect evolution.” One of the study’s striking ...

For Scott Lakeram, a paleobiology fellow at the National Museum of Natural History, coal balls are time capsules ripe with insights about the evolution of ancient plants and insects.

For more than a century, researchers have argued over the evolutionary origin of insect wings. Although many hypotheses ... Moreover, she adds, the origin of wings is not the only facet of their ...

Future fossil discoveries are expected to further illuminate the evolution and mechanisms behind insect bioluminescence in ...

"These data will produce the best resolved tree of insects, setting the stage for comparative analyses of genome evolution" says Misof. Insects are the most species-rich group of animals. They play a ...

The exciting question for us is how microorganisms contribute to the co-evolution of trees and herbivorous insects. Our results are certainly only a small contribution to understanding these ...

New research from Oxford University has revealed chimpanzee "engineering" capabilities that aid them in retrieving insects as food sources.