“The staggering age of the first dragonflies provide us with a look into how life was in the distant past. Contemporary ...

Nearly a quarter of freshwater animal species, from fish to dragonflies,face high risk of extinction worldwide, scientists have warned. The rise of chemical and sewage pollution, over-extraction ...

Dragonflies have much larger eyes than damselflies, with the eyes taking up most of the head as they wrap around from the side to the front of the face. The eyes of a damselfly are large ...

Despite how much humans rely on insects, our actions are reducing their populations in many parts of the world. A recent ...

U.S. dragonfly species that produce the special wax are faring better in the face of ever-hotter and drier conditions compared with their waxless counterparts. This suggests the wax acts as a ...

One such effort is underway in Cumbria, as a team of conservationists transported buckets of sphagnum moss containing dragonfly larvae to a new site at RSPB Campfield Marsh, a nature reserve on ...

“I was laying down, and I didn’t want to get up at all because I’d get smacked with a face full of dragonfly,” she said. WATCH: Beachgoers witness a swarm of dragonflies (Story continues below ...