Three-hundred-million years ago, Earth was very different. The continents had coalesced into Pangea, which was dominated in ...

Scientists rethink why giant insects once ruled the skies, finding oxygen may not explain their size or disappearance.

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

The size of dragonflies and damselflies varies around the globe. These insects are generally larger in temperate areas than in the tropics. According to a new study from Lund University in Sweden, ...

Millions of years ago, oversized insects such as griffinflies boasting wingspans comparable to today's hawks scuttled across (and fluttered above) the planet. But why these jumbo jets of the insect ...

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 ...

“If we look at kind of the different time periods throughout history, large insects lived in the Permian period. Those were ...

Australia’s heaviest insect was discovered in a rainforest. Scientists say the Acrophylla alta is less than the size of a golf ball. Researchers found a huge bug was found in a rainforest, and it's ...