A handful of new studies moves the needle toward a consensus on the long-disputed question of whether insect wings evolved from legs or from ... as an intern in 2009 after receiving a master’s degree ...

In 1870, a German anatomist named Karl Gegenbaur was the first person to theorize that abdominal gills on water insects like mayflies eventually developed into wings. For the next 150 years ...

When insects such as this Meganeura monyi, which had a wingspan of about 27 inches, developed wings roughly 325 million years ago, the insect population exploded, Stanford researchers found.

But, we are still not sure where and how insect wings originated, Tomayasu said. In the last 200 years, scientists have been studying the origin of insect wings using various approaches, such as ...

Modern insects are versatile wing conversationalists. Crickets can scrape a leg against a wing or rub two wings together. Some grasshoppers beat their wings like castanets; others crackle and snap ...

Engineers have designed a robot with flapping wings, which can perform ... more akin to bats and insects than robots. The robot can tumble through a 90-degree flip and recover to a stable glide ...

Mosquitoes take weird insect flight to new heights ... But mosquitoes rapidly flap their wings up and down around a roughly 40-degree angle on average. Such short, speedy wingbeats make it ...

There are many aspects of insect biology, especially their flight, that remain a mystery for scientists. One is simply how they move their wings. The insect wing hinge is a specialized joint that ...