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Insects evolved their wings long before birds and bats, yet, we do not know how their wings evolved, said Courtney Clark-Hatchel (Miami ’12, Ph.D. ’18), first author of the paper. "Through searching ...

Marine Biological Laboratory scientists Heather Bruce and Nipam Patel have confirmed the origins of insect wings, using clues from long-ago scientific papers as well as state-of-the-art genomic ...

Rare fossils preserving the brains of creatures living more than half a billion years ago shed new light on the evolution of arthropods such as insects and crustaceans. Exquisitely preserved ...

This allowed them to look deep back in time to when insects evolved from crustaceans (crabs, lobsters and prawns) and emerged onto land between 450 million and 500 million years ago.

Insects incorporated two ancestral crustacean leg segments (labeled 7 in red and 8 in pink) into the body wall. The lobe on leg segment 8 later formed the wing in insects, while this corresponding ...

Shrimp look an awful lot like bugs. The exoskeletons, jointed legs and compound eyes of both groups of living things give ...

Looking at crustaceans for possible wing evolution made more sense to the researchers. “[If] you look in myriapods for where insect wings came from, you won’t find anything,” MBL research ...

Fossils of a 10-legged wormy creature that lived 520 million years ago may fill an important gap in the history of the evolution of insects, spiders and crustaceans. The so-called walking cactus ...

New research shows that crustaceans such as shrimps, lobsters and crabs have more in common with their insect relatives than previously thought - when it comes to the structure of their brains ...

This mutation, they say, could have led to the evolution of insects, which have only six legs and emerged suddenly some 400 million years ago, long after crustaceans were on the scene.

A new study examining stick and leaf insect species has found evidence of convergent evolution, with all of the insects evolving similar characteristics despite diverging long ago. Convergent ...