A once-rare type of dragonfly may have been aided by climate change, the Broads Authority has said. The Norfolk Hawker went extinct from the Cambridgeshire Fens in 1893 and, prior to 2013 ...

After discovering bacteria-killing properties of the wings of insects such as cicadas and dragonflies, scientists of the RMIT University in Melbourne have developed a special antibacterial texture ...

Published in Thin-Walled Structures, the study relied on numerical analysis and physical experiments, and led its authors to ...

About the first childhood love of fifth-grader Peka for his classmate Allochka Nikolskaya - the little swan figure skater from Tchaikovsky's ballet with dragonfly wings, and about the first ...

A dragonfly larva emerges from the water with four distinctive lumps on its back. These lumps will turn into the most powerful wings in the insect kingdom. Watch the transformation unfold before ...

A brilliant, emerald-green color covers their enormous eyes, which possess almost 360-degree peripheral vision. These dragonflies have a wingspan of approximately three-and-a-half inches. Their wings ...

While we have three main light-sensitive proteins (called opsins) one each for blue, green and red which help us see colour, ...