Paleobiologist Scott Lakeram analyzes 300-million-year-old coal ball fossils to reveal prehistoric plant-insect interactions ...

“Both symbiosis and horizontal gene transfer have profoundly influenced insect evolution.” One of the study’s striking findings is the binary distribution of pectinases among leaf beetle ...

Future fossil discoveries are expected to further illuminate the evolution and mechanisms behind insect bioluminescence in ...

In the insect world things are often not what they seem, especially if you're a hungry predator. For 250 million years, insects have survived because they often appear to be something other than ...

Using two species of flies from different climates -- one from the cool, high-altitude forests of Northern California, the other hailing from the hot, dry deserts of the Southwest -- scientists ...

In natural and agricultural ecosystems, omnivorous insects are omnipresent. Whether they are 'true omnivores' that require both plant and prey resources to complete their life-cycle, 'herbivores ...

Based upon observations of social insects, he reasoned that the extent ... Whereas kin selection likely underlies the evolution of many cooperatively breeding societies, it alone cannot explain ...

"These data will produce the best resolved tree of insects, setting the stage for comparative analyses of genome evolution" says Misof. Insects are the most species-rich group of animals. They play a ...

Protonal paranota are not found today on winged insects, these are probably remnants of the early evolution of insects' wings. Coming out of its burrow is a mesothelae spider. I was told that ...

For more than a century, researchers have argued over the evolutionary origin of insect wings. Although many hypotheses ... Moreover, she adds, the origin of wings is not the only facet of their ...

Generally we think of flowers as offering food to the insects that pollinate them. Evolution has produced many flower species that pretend to have food that insects want, emitting scents of ...

The exciting question for us is how microorganisms contribute to the co-evolution of trees and herbivorous insects. Our results are certainly only a small contribution to understanding these ...