The team also discovered that larger wings with vein-like patterns were more adaptable and more straightforward to bend. “The ...

Images: 1) Fruit fly against white and black backgrounds./PNAS. 2) Patterns in fly wings (top half) and wasp wings (bottom half)./PNAS. 3) Composite image of fly against white and black bacgrounds./ ...

“In the case of birds, bats, and pterosaurs we know exactly where the wings came from evolutionarily because all these animals fly with their ... actions on the pattern of wing motion.

Many flies wave their highly patterned wings to signal to mates and foes. The peacock fly - Callopistroyia annulipes - holds its wings upright to show off the patterns while walking back and forth.

Flying all the way down there or they die trying. GREENFIELDBOYCE: It's a grueling trip, and Davis and some colleagues wondered if it might be affected by the pattern of color on monarchs' wings.

Scientists visiting a woodland area of Mexico in 1965 captured a delicate creature with colorfully patterned wings. The animal turned out to be a new species — but it would take almost 60 years ...

Scientists found an animal with patterned wings in the woodlands of Mexico and discovered a new species, named by eighth graders in Kansas, a study said. Photo shows a representative area.