When I was little, I loved chasing butterflies. It’s fun to run after them as they flit and flutter. But I didn’t eat them. I asked my friend Rich Zack if that was an oversight. He’s an insect ...
In 250 million years of insect evolution, the appearance of new wings is unprecedented. Transformations and losses of wings, yes, but additions, never. A research team in France has shattered this ...
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Insects: Facts about the creepy-crawlies that make up more than half of the world's animal species
More than half of all known animal species on Earth are insects — critters with a hard external skeleton, three pairs of jointed legs, antennae and a body divided into three segments (the head, thorax ...
MUCH has been written relative to the morphology of the insect thorax and its appendages, but few of the contributions of recent years have led to any modification of tho present-day conceptions of ...
Researchers have developed sophisticated numerical simulations of a butterfly's forward flight. In Robert A. Heinlein's science-fiction novel, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, one of the characters ...
Scientists from the UK and Switzerland have used very intense X-rays to film inside an insect's body as it flies. The resulting footage - a 3D reconstruction made up of several X-ray snapshots - shows ...
This footage is a 3D reconstruction, made up of several X-ray images, and shows of a blowfly's "flight motor" Scientists from the UK and Switzerland have used very intense X-rays to film inside an ...
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