Three hundred million years ago, the largest insect ever known to humankind hunted in fern jungles and boasted an enormous wingspan of nearly 2.5 feet. Different from modern dragonflies in its size ...

Giant prehistoric insects may not have depended on high oxygen levels after all. Scientists now think something else must ...

Three hundred million years ago, dragonfly-like creatures with wingspans stretching 70 centimeters patrolled the skies of a world nothing like our own. These griffinflies, as paleontologists call them ...

A student, exploring the barren ridges of Alberta's Dinosaur Provincial Park in search of ancient plant life, stumbled upon ...

Dragonflies may be the key to a scientific breakthrough that sheds light on prehistoric oxygen levels, ASU scientists said Wednesday. John VandenBrooks, a post-doctoral fellow from Yale University, ...

It’s the latest manifestation of Lancaster County’s summer of rain: a seeming invasion of quadruple-winged, prehistoric-looking, bug-eyed acrobatic insects better known as dragonflies and damselflies.