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

The dragonfly. Dragonflies are insects identified by their long and narrow bodies and wide wings. Usually found near fresh bodies of water, dragonflies spend most of their days aloft.

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 ...

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 ...

Nature doesn’t hold back when it comes to insects. While most people imagine bugs as brown, creepy, or bland, there’s a whole ...

Most dragonflies are so sensitive to pollutants that their very presence indicates a healthy ecosystem. As a result, they ...

Dutch scientists have developed the world's smallest autonomous flapping drone, a dragonfly-like beast with 3-D vision that could revolutionise our experience of everything from pop concerts to ...

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.

Giant insects: Why did griffinflies grow so large? In the first part of a dragonfly's life cycle they are larvae living in water and absorb oxygen into their bodies through gills. Adult dragonflies, ...

Trying to photograph fast and colorful dragonflies in flight along the water's edge of Mary Dunn Pond in Hyannis.