A study suggests that winged insects evolved from a terrestrial ancestor. Polyneoptera is a lineage of winged insects called Pterygota, which comprises more than 40,000 species. The evolutionary ...
In 1870, a German anatomist named Karl Gegenbaur was the first person to theorize that abdominal gills on water insects like mayflies eventually developed into wings. For the next 150 years, ...
It sounds like a just-so story—“How the Insect Got its Wings”—but it’s really a mystery that has puzzled biologists for over a century. Intriguing and competing theories of insect wing evolution have ...
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Not a bug at all: Why pill bugs are actually crustaceans
Most people first notice pill bugs while lifting a flowerpot or turning over a log, then watching small gray roly polies curl ...
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"Extraordinary Power Of Natural Selection": Convergent Evolution Found In Hundreds Of Stick Insect Species
A new study examining stick and leaf insect species has found evidence of convergent evolution, with all of the insects ...
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