Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When the National Weather Service’s Cleveland location tweeted out a video in September showing some huge clouds of purple, teal, ...

Parasite-infected dragonflies suffer the same metabolic disorders that have led to an epidemic of obesity and type 2 diabetes in humans, according to research to be published in the Proceedings of the ...

A massive swarm of dragonflies descended on Misquamicut State Beach on July 27, leading to stunned reactions from beachgoers Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

UC Davis researchers are using high-speed cameras to follow how dragonflies catch prey in flight. (Photo of blue dasher dragonfly by Getty Images) Despite their small size, dragonflies are arguably ...

The findings add to current knowledge of how insects fly and keep stable in the air. They could also help to inspire new designs in small aerial vehicles like drones, which can be useful for ...

But the research really took off in the summer of 2017 at the Case Western Reserve farm in Hunting Valley, Ohio, as Moore and Hathaway Brown high-school student Cassandra Lis chased down male ...

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Dragonflies are ideal hunting machines. More than 80 percent of their brain is used for processing visual information, and it is believed that some species can see objects up to 30 feet away and ...

Christine Goforth calls herself the Dragonfly Woman, and for good reason. The aquatic insect expert doesn’t just study solo dragonflies. She studies massive swarms of dragonflies that form when large ...

To figure out how dragonflies anticipated their prey's movements during a hunt, researchers built a fruit-fly Colosseum, complete with fake scenery and high-speed cameras — and then hooked up the ...

Dragonflies can easily right themselves and maneuver tight turns while flying. Each of their four wings is controlled by separate muscles, giving them exquisite control over their flight. Researchers ...