Tiny light-scattering structures that give today’s butterflies and moths their brilliant hues date back to the days of the dinosaurs. Fossilized mothlike insects from the Jurassic Period bear textured ...

Researchers in Germany have found the earliest known fossil evidence of insects from the order Lepidoptera. By analyzing a drilled sediment core that dates to the Triassic-Jurassic boundary, they ...

From within rocks, a few dozen fossils nearly too small to see with the naked eye can tell an important history of the evolution of moths and butterflies. About 200 million years ago, an ancient ...

Ultrasound absorbers: false-colour 3D representation of a 0.21×0.28 mm wing section of the moth Lasiocampa quercus showing the structure, diversity, and arrangement of base scales (orange) and cover ...

Moths' drab gray and brown coats may not capture our imaginations as much as their colorful butterfly cousins do, but according to a recent study, that's more a failure of human eyesight than of moths ...

Earth day is Friday, April 22nd, and Proof is celebrating all week. This is the first post in a five-day series about our planet. Look closely at the Atlas moth above and you’ll see that one of these ...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...life-microscope.html<BR><BR>I like the one of the moth wing scales the most so far, and think the first one should be in a FPS somewhere.

For the first time, biologists have linked the ribbony “tails” streaming from big, green luna moths’ hind wings with, of all things, a cozy climate. Those dangling wing tails rank among such evolution ...