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IN a recent unpublished lecture to the Cambridge Natural History Society on analogies between insects and aeroplanes, Mr. J. W. S. Pringle pointed out that many insects lack inherent stability ; ...

The evolution of wings not only allowed ancient insects to become the first creatures on Earth to take to the skies, but also propelled their rise to become one of nature's great success stories, ...

Genes from a tiny shrimp-like crustacean could help in the search for the origin of insect wings, a new study finds. To be clear, there is no evidence that any crustaceans ever evolved to fly, ...

Don't despair – there *is* a trick to smacking these infuriating insects. A fly has a pair of tiny, dumbbell-shaped limbs called halteres that were once a second pair of wings. They wield them to make ...