The evolution of insect-eating birds may have spurred rapid changes in the flight ability of ancient cicadas, according to ...

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"The fly wing hinge is perhaps the most mysterious ... between the biomechanics and the neurobiology. Very few times in evolution has an animal had one very successful form of locomotion—walking ...

However, the hind wings aren’t its only striking features. S. charybdis appears to have evolved a unique, three-flapped ...

Or the fly has an extra set of wings -- or no wings at all. The genes containing developmental instructions for the body plan are known as homeobox-containing genes. The DNA code in homeobox genes ...

More: A dinosaur museum in an unlikely place Edward Braun, a professor of biology at the University of Florida who has studied the evolution ... that easily fly by flapping their wings through ...

A bee has two pairs of wings and rests with them close to its body, while a bee-fly has one pair and rests them away from the body. Bee-flies have short antennae. Their hovering style of flight is ...