In the lush, fossil-rich Hindon Maar Complex of New Zealand’s South Island, scientists have uncovered a 14.6-million-year-old bee fossil, the first of its kind ever found in Zealandia—the ...

Tyson, a major US producer of beef, pork and chicken, is betting on protein that comes from insects. The meat processor said on Tuesday that it has invested in Protix, a Netherlands-based insect ...

Given grasshoppers' iconic status in the insect realm, ... we plan to reclassify major groups within the family so that the classification would reflect monophyletic groups," he says.

Not all insects evolved from a common ancestor as has long been believed, ... "One of the few points of general agreement has been that the hexapods are monophyletic, ...

Most phylogenetic trees are rooted, meaning that one branch (which is usually unlabeled) corresponds to the common ancestor of all the species included in the tree. Note, however, that a tree can ...

How stick insects handle indigestive food. Max Planck researchers discovered multifunctional cellulases, ... Xylanase-cellulases from different species were closely related, and the ...

In evolutionary biology, convergent evolution is the process whereby organisms not closely related (not monophyletic), independently evolve similar traits as a result of having to adapt to similar ...

He also insisted that all the members of a monophyletic group share at least one evolutionary novelty that arose in the common ancestor, such as wings in insects.

Not all insects evolved from a common ancestor as has long been believed, a surprising new genetics study suggests. At least one group of primitive wingless hexapods – six-legged animals ...