“When the average person thinks about an insect wing, they think about a dragonfly — these two pairs of really pretty, long wings,” he said. “But it’s different in different lineages.

“When the average person thinks about an insect wing, they think about a dragonfly – these two pairs of really pretty, long wings,” he says. “But it’s different in different lineages.

Prehistoric insects like dragonfly-sized Meganeura and two-meter-long millipedes once dominated Earth’s skies and swamps.

In a first for Canadian paleontology, a Cretaceous fossilized dragonfly wing, uncovered in Alberta's Dinosaur Provincial Park ...

A McGill University undergraduate student's discovery of a dragonfly wing has led to a 30-million-year gap in the ...

A simple developmental model recapitulates complex insect wing venation patterns. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018; 201721248 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1721248115 ...

Insects took off when they evolved wings Date: January 24, 2018 Source: Stanford's School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences Summary: Now buzzing and whizzing around every continent ...

The insect wings are composed of nerves and membranes, and their cross-section shapes consist of vertices (nerves) and line segments (membranes). The geometry of the shape appears as a connection ...

Destin, our friend over at Smarter Every Day, has expanded our brains once again. Did you know that dragonfly wings work differently than nearly every other insect, utilizing a direct flight ...

One potential explanation for this ability is that alone among flying animals, insects’ wings did not evolve from pre-existing limbs, the way those of birds and bats did, said Dr. Gonzalez-Bellido.

Called the Dragonfly Telephoto Array, it has proved highly effective at finding new low-light galaxies — specifically seven dwarf galaxies in the field of a large spiral galaxy known as M101.