The discovery of four previously unknown species of snakefly - a type of long flying insect - has thrown what natural historians know about the evolution of these predatory insects into disarray.
The recent discovery of four new species of ancient insects are leading scientists to question the evolutionary history of the snakefly. The fossils, discovered in British Columbia and Washington ...
The insect order Hymenoptera -- wasps, bees, ants and relatives -- is the third most diverse animal group, but its origin remains controversial. Fossils from Permian beds of Russia demonstrate that ...
They have a striking shape, are diurnal, predatory insects and occur only in the Northern Hemisphere. Snakeflies (Raphidioptera), also known as camel-neck flies, have gained further notoriety with the ...
Quite possibly — or more likely, quite probably — you have never heard of a snakefly though equally quite possibly you have encountered a snakefly. Probably more than once. This may, and probably does ...
Quite possibly — or more likely, quite probably — you have never heard of a snakefly though equally quite possibly you have encountered a snakefly. Probably more than once. This may, and probably does ...
They have a striking shape, are diurnal, predatory insects and occur only in the Northern Hemisphere. Snakeflies (Raphidioptera), also known as camel-neck flies, have gained further notoriety with the ...
Agulla ("Stretch") the snakefly, might not win any beauty contests, but as predicted last month in ScientificAmerican.com 's 60-Second Science podcast , its serpentine head and superlong neck helped ...
Fossil discoveries often help answer long-standing questions about how our modern world came to be. However, sometimes they only deepen the mystery--as a recent discovery of four new species of ...