Researchers calculated the flight ability of more than 80 ancient cicada species to analyze their evolution over time.

Both researchers are co-corresponding author of research published Nov. 1 in Nature Ecology and Evolution.. Because legs and ...

Century-old debates don’t get resolved in a day, of course, and in the same issue of Nature Ecology & Evolution where Bruce and Patel published these results, Tomoyasu and PhD student Courtney ...

Scientists built a working model of an early winged dinosaur to test a hypothesis about how the appendages evolved. By Asher Elbein The origin of bird wings has long presented a puzzle to ...

Evolution of bat wings and calls through 'foraging syndromes' allows diversity to flourish Study shows that echolocation frequency and wing shape of bats evolve in unison, which leads to distinct ...

Researchers built a metal robot with black felt and wheels, nicknamed Robopteryx, to resemble Caudipteryx, a peacock-size dinosaur with tiny feathered wings that roamed Earth about 125 million to ...

Moon moths can grow wings big enough to cover a human palm “and often have beautiful colors,” Rubin says. This winged phase lasts only the final week or so of the moths’ lives, when they ...

Penguins can’t fly.And while their wings may seem to be purely decorative, these appendages actually play a larger role in their evolutionary history. A fossil penguin species named Pakudyptes ...

Unlike birds, the evolution of bats’ wings and legs is tightly coupled, which may have prevented them from filling as many ecological niches as birds.