While Mesozoic, Paleogene, and Neogene insect faunas greatly resemble the modern one,
the Paleozoic fauna provides unique insights into key innovations in insect evolution, such …

Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) present an unparalleled insect model to integrate
evolutionary genomics with ecology for the study of insect evolution. Key features of …

Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) are well-known but often poorly understood insects.
Their phylogeny and classification have proved difficult to understand but, through use of …

Dragonflies and damselflies are among the earliest flying insects with extant
representatives. However, unraveling details of their long evolutionary history, such as egg …

Owing to their prevalence in nowadays terrestrial ecosystems, insects are a relevant group
to assess the impact of mass extinctions on emerged land. However, limitations of the insect …

Giant insects, with wingspans as large as 70 cm, ruled the Carboniferous and Permian
skies. Gigantism has been linked to hyperoxic conditions because oxygen concentration is a …

The largest insects to have ever lived were the giant meganeurids of the Late Palaeozoic,
ancient stem relatives of our modern dragonflies. With wingspans up to 71 cm, these iconic …

Molecular data along with fossils are being used increasingly to recover time-calibrated
phylogenetic trees. Recently there have been manuscripts that have used divergence dating …

New insects are described from the Middle Permian (Guadalupian) of Salagou Formation in
the Lodève Basin (Languedoc region, France). Palaeopterans are represented by new …

Associations between lycopsid and herbivorous arthropods are rare in the fossil record and
equally sparse among the three surviving lineages of Lycopodiaceae, Selaginellaceae and …