Globally, there are about 3,000 species of dragonflies inhabiting freshwater habitats. Each species has a unique color along their bodies or wings that helps them camouflage into their surroundings, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As is the case with many animals, symbolism around dragonflies changes across countries, cultures and centuries. Once seen in ...

A new study reveals a decline in dragonfly and damselfly species in India's Western Ghats.

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 ...

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 ...

Bird-watching has more popular recognition as a hobby, but you can also dragonfly-watch. And what's not to love about dragonflies? With names like Cyrano Darner, Serpent Ringtail, Black-winged ...

While swimming with friends on a hot July afternoon, we noticed a large yellow dragonfly that kept zipping back and forth over the pool. Several times, the 3-inch-long insect flew just a foot or two ...

The Common Green Darner is perhaps the most iconic of American species. They spend a lot of time on the wing, patrolling over ponds and hunting above meadows. Some populations are migratory, flying ...

Summer is great for obvious reasons: Sun, beaches, ice cream, music festivals, shorts, campfires, and so on. As wonderful as that all is, though, with the end of winter comes the re-emergence of bugs, ...

A summer image now - dragonflies skimming over a lake, lighting on the surface for a moment then rolling off again. That's all in a day's work for Dr. Jessica Ware. She studies dragonflies at Rutgers ...

New research in how dragonflies may adapt their wing color to temperature differences might explain color variation in other animals, from lions to birds. Further, the findings could also provide ...