We know very little about insect evolution despite them inhabiting every kind of environment on our planet. At a time when the future of many insect species is threatened, researchers are looking to ...
A research team led by Prof. Huang Diying from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS) has identified three species of Jurassic orthopterans—an ...
Some 300 million years ago, giant insects soared over Earth’s wetlands, with wings stretching almost 70 centimetres wide. A new study challenges the long-held idea that abundant atmospheric oxygen ...