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Researchers have discovered that insects' sense of smell evolved from ancient taste genes, rewriting evolutionary history.

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Different insects flap their wings in different manners. Understanding the variations between these modes of flight may help scientists design better and more efficient flying robots in the future.

For years, Alvarezsauroids have occupied an odd corner of dinosaur evolution. They were small theropods, relatives of the ...

Some insects can flap their wings so rapidly that it’s impossible for instructions from their brains to entirely control the behaviour. Building tiny flapping robots has helped researchers shed light ...

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