Three hundred million years ago, dragonfly-like creatures with wingspans stretching 70 centimeters patrolled the skies of a ...

Matthew S. Lehnert always had a strong interest in microscopy and loved looking at different specimens through microscopes.

Kent State assistant professor Matthew S. Lehnert has been interested in insects and microscopy since childhood. Lehnert and his students research how insects eat and the role of metals in their ...

Researchers from the University of Pretoria debunk the myth that high oxygen levels were essential for ancient insects' 70cm ...

The problem with diffusion is that it’s notoriously slow. The oxygen constraint hypothesis argued that the larger the insect ...

Insects first took to the skies about 350 million years ago, some 200 million years before birds first flapped their wings. By the end of the Carboniferous period, 300 million years ago, some flying ...

The results are transforming how scholars understand human history. By analysing parchment, researchers are uncovering ...

Plants on remote islands get less disease — but isolation reshapes which species dominate, and those species are the most ...

Scientists discover seven strange frog-faced insects in Uganda, a surprising hidden gem of the unique African jungle.

For decades, there was no record of Andrena rehni exisiting in the US. In 2018 it was found in Maryland and five years later I found it in New York State ...