For years, giant prehistoric insects were considered proof that Earth once needed oxygen-rich air to sustain oversized life ...

Giant prehistoric insects may not have depended on high oxygen levels after all. Scientists now think something else must ...

Giant dragonflies once roamed earth’s skies. New research upends the textbook theory of why they went extinct. Insects first took to the skies about 350 million years ago, some 200 million years ...

Higher concentrations of oxygen could produce giant insects according to a paper presented at the Comparative Physiology conference currently meeting in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The paper, “No giants ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, VA (October 11, 2006) – The delicate lady bug in your garden could be frighteningly large if only there was a greater concentration of oxygen in the air, a new study concludes. The ...

Insects exhibit a remarkable diversity in auditory systems, which have evolved independently multiple times to facilitate intra‐species communication and predator avoidance. A prime example is the ...

With support from an NSF grant, two faculty members in biomedical engineering and mechanics have combined forces to answer questions pertaining to insects' breathing. The researchers will study how ...

Giant prehistoric insects, some with two-foot wingspans, once roamed Earth. For years, scientists believed higher oxygen ...

Insects exhibit breathing patterns called discontinuous gas-exchange cycles that include periods of little to no release of carbon dioxide to the environment. Researchers who studied the respiratory ...

An incredibly advanced hearing system which enables a group of insects to listen to the same sound twice with each ear, helping them to locate the sound’s origin with pinpoint accuracy, has been ...