Discovery pushes back origin of Ophiocordyceps fungi by 30 million years, suggesting fungi evolved by shifting to new hosts.

An ant and fly from the Cretaceous period offer insights into the history of Ophiocordyceps, the fungal parasite made popular ...

Humans lost their ability to synthesize their own vitamin C because our ancestors had access to plenty of fruit.

Winged insects have been around for nearly 400 million years, and the evolution of flight in different insect species influences things like how insects flap their wings, ...

A research team at the University of Münster has investigated for the first time how the confrontation of bacteria with hosts ...

These similarities enable researchers to predict stick insect evolution, even when the critters have evolved independently from one another for tens of millions of years, according to the new ...

Technology Wing-flapping robot helps explain the evolution of insect flight. Researchers built tiny robots that can switch between two different kinds of flight, one involving unusually fast wing ...

Stick insects show repeatable evolution in action. The skinny bugs with cryptic colors tell a nuanced story. By Laura Baisas. Published May 24, 2024 2:00 PM EDT.

Image of an accurate ant-mimicking spider (Myrmarachne macleayana, left) and putative ant model (Polyrhachis robsoni, right). Spiders are just as good at mimicking ants as other insects are.

Tokyo, Japan – Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have proposed a hypothesis for why insects are so rare in marine environments. They previously showed that insects evolved a unique ...