ABSTRACT: Although pre-Cretaceous angiosperms were rejected or suspected by some palaeobotanists, their existence in the Jurassic appears increasingly plausible, especially when recent palaeobotanical ...

We present new distributional records for two Colombian species of Bittacidae. Pazius convolutus García-García & Cadena-Castañeda, 2015 and Bittacus panamensis Byers, 1958 previously known from ...

Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. A line drawing of the Internet Archive headquarters building façade. An illustration of a magnifying ...

To seal the deal, a hangingfly will offer a prospective mate a dead insect that the recently killed. If she decides that the gift looks like a suitable meal, she'll have sex with him. If not ...

The committee also included an extinct hangingfly identified in a 165 million-year-old fossil, and a lacewing identified from an image a photographer shared on the Internet. An average of 18 ...

A list of the oddest and most enigmatic new creatures to be discovered in the natural world last year has compiled by scientists. By Richard Gray and Richardgray 23 May 2013 • 4:00pm Lesula ...

In Southwestern France, a group of fish have learned how to kill birds. As the River Tarn winds through the city of Albi, it contains a small gravel island where pigeons gather to clean and bathe. And ...

They noted also that it was possible that the insect and the ginkgo formed a partnership of sorts with the tree providing shelter and the hangingfly eating other bugs that might seek to feed on ...

Specifically, the fossil, which was about 1.5 inches (38.5 millimeters) long, is a type of scorpionfly known as a hangingfly, which often hangs from surfaces waiting to snag prey. The region back ...