The size of dragonflies and damselflies varies around the globe. These insects are generally larger in temperate areas than in the tropics. According to a new study from Lund University in Sweden, ...

Scientists use many proxies to reconstruct Earth's ancient climates. Pollen, diatoms, geochemical isotopes and fossils, for example, all contribute to piecing together past-climate puzzles. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The griffinfly, now extinct, once stretched its wings nearly 70 centimeters wide. (CREDIT: Werner Kraus / Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0 ...

Millions of years ago, oversized insects such as griffinflies boasting wingspans comparable to today's hawks scuttled across (and fluttered above) the planet. But why these jumbo jets of the insect ...

A giant new species of stick insect with a supersized wingspan has been discovered in a remote rainforest in Australia. The stick insect, which is around 40cm long, was discovered in high-altitude ...

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 them ...