A handful of new studies moves the needle toward a consensus on the long-disputed question of whether insect wings evolved from legs or from the body wall, but the devil is in the details. Jef Akst ...

In a previous MIT design, the robotic insect was made from four identical units — each with two wings. The rectangular devices were around the size of a microcassette and each one had eight wings.

So normally to record an insect you need at least two cameras ... camera views of the mosquito where we can actually see its wings clearly," said Dr Simon Walker at the University of Oxford's ...

Her world—100 million years ago in Myanmar—is not one of vast seas, towering mountains or broad deserts, but a damp and ...

A fearsome-looking insect commonly referred to as “ winged wētā ” may look like a flying wētā, but it is not a wētā at all.

Inspired by the humble bee, robotics researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have designed insect-sized aerial ... feature flapping wings that not only allow for extended ...

wings, and antennae form. In the case of a butterfly, the pupa is inside the chrysalis (other insects may spin cocoons or pupate in the soil) until the adult emerges. Adults mate and lay eggs. An ...

Each member of the robotic insect swarm weighs less than a paperclip ... By reducing mechanical stress on the wings and actuators, the researchers say they’ve increased both flight duration ...

So far scientists who study bugs, called entomologists, have named one million insect species but studies estimate that four million are still uncategorized. The oldest insect fossil—a mandible ...