“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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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.

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.

Dragonfly wings also feature nanopillar patterns that fend off microbes, but these are taller and skinnier, which enables them to fend of gram-positive bacteria.