Three hundred million years ago, dragonfly-like creatures with wingspans stretching 70 centimeters patrolled the skies of a ...

There are a lot of free courses offered by Canadian universities that you can take online. But the University of Alberta has ...

Dragonflies may see the world in a way that pushes beyond human limits—and surprisingly, they do it using the same molecular trick we evolved ourselves. Scientists discovered that these insects can ...

The problem with diffusion is that it’s notoriously slow. The oxygen constraint hypothesis argued that the larger the insect ...

Do dragonflies see like humans? Researchers discovered dragonflies use a red-sensing opsin identical to mammals. This study ...

Sometimes, different organisms can evolve the same ability independently, a process called parallel evolution. A new study ...

A newly discovered dinosaur the size of a chicken is reshaping how scientists understand life during the age of giants.

Gigantic dragonfly-like insects – the “griffinflies” – ruled the skies around 300 million years ago, but they have long been consigned to evolution’s graveyard.

Fossil relatives of dragonflies, known as griffinflies, had wingspans of 70 centimeters (28 inches) 300 million years ago, and they weren’t the era’s only insects that far exceeded their modern ...

This breakthrough connects insect vision to human biology and could advance optogenetics, enabling new treatments using light to target cells deep within the body.

A fossilized dragonfly wing discovered in Alberta has been identified as a new species and the first from Canada’s ...

From lassoing prey to designing cutting-edge sensors, both spiders and humans are using silk in astounding ways.