As scientists have toiled to chronicle of the evolution of insects, a frustrating blank spot in the fossil record has masked one of the most critical points in insects’ development — the Devonian, or ...

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, ...

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MR. S. H. SCUDDER has published (Anniversary Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History, 1880, pp. 41, plate 1) a memoir on the Devonian Insects of New Brunswick. The fragments of the six ...

Creating a family tree that dates back more than 400 million years and details the evolution of the most diverse group of animals on the planet is no easy feat, but one ambitious group of scientists ...

Concurrent gaps in the Late Devonian/Mississippian fossil records of insects and tetrapods (i.e. Romer's Gap) have been attributed to physiological suppression by low atmospheric pO₂ Here, updated ...

We have published an article describing a new calamitalean species named Annularia paisii with an insect gall about 303 million years old. This new fossil species was discovered in the region of São ...

Hymenoptera (bees, ants, wasps, sawflies) is one of four insect orders with more than 100,000 described species. Above are three hymenopteran fossils. (Photos University of California Museum of ...

I SHALL be glad if you will afford me an opportunity of explaining one or two personal matters referred to in p. 11 of Mr. Scudder's memoir on the Devonian Insects of New Brunswick, which was ...