Anna's hummingbird flying in the experimental setup, drinking sugar water from a fake flower. Credit: Lentink Lab / Stanford University. Anna's hummingbird flying in the experimental setup, drinking ...

Different insects flap their wings in different manners. Understanding the variations between these modes of flight may help scientists design better and more efficient flying robots in the future.

How did insect wings originate? This is a question that represents an unsolved mystery of insect evolution. Despite many years of research, it is still not entirely clear from which body structure ...

About 350 million years ago, our planet witnessed the evolution of the first flying creatures. They are still around, and some of them continue to annoy us with their buzzing. While scientists have ...