Large butterfly-like insects known as Kalligrammatid lacewings, which fluttered through Eurasian fern- and cycad-filled woodland during the Mesozoic Era, have been extinct for more than 120 million ...

A nearly 100 million-year-old firefly fossilized in amber sheds light on how the bioluminescent insects evolved during the time of dinosaurs, a new study finds.

These twinkling insects are the most abundant bioluminescent beetles, with roughly 2,500 species known around the world. ...

LEST the reference in NATURE of July 7, p. 20, to Queensland Geological Survey Publication, No. 273, may lead readers to think that the account of the Coleoptera is the first published work on the ...

image: Several stick insect fossils from the Mesozoic: (a) Adjacivena grossa sp. nov. and (b) Ambrotophasma vetulum gen. et sp. nov. from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China (~165 Ma); (c ...

Future fossil discoveries are expected to further illuminate the evolution and mechanisms behind insect bioluminescence in ...

This one-of-a-kind predatory strategy has never been seen in other insects. Scientists think it was used to trap flies into incubating the wasp’s eggs.

This study demonstrates the significance of insects in the Mesozoic soundscape, which has been largely unknown in the palaeontological record. 'This research has implications for sexual selection in ...

Insects from the Jurassic period wore clusters of eggs on their legs that dangled like grapes from a vine, fossils show. Scientists who uncovered the 160 million year old child protection strategy ...

A nearly 100 million-year-old firefly fossilized in amber sheds light on how the bioluminescent insects evolved during the time of dinosaurs, a new study finds.