A new study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution connects plant and insect physiology, chemical ecology, molecular ...
Three-hundred-million years ago, Earth was very different. The continents had coalesced into Pangea, which was dominated in ...
Three hundred million years ago, dragonfly-like creatures with wingspans stretching 70 centimeters patrolled the skies of a world nothing like our own. These griffinflies, as paleontologists call ...
The problem with diffusion is that it’s notoriously slow. The oxygen constraint hypothesis argued that the larger the insect ...
Spiders and insects are often considered pests. Some people would rather see the creepy-crawly creatures dead than buzzing ...
Scientific consensus is that high oxygen levels allowed these humongous fliers to exist, but a new study throws that idea ...
Scientists rethink why giant insects once ruled the skies, finding oxygen may not explain their size or disappearance.