Mosquitoes bite people: A mosquito on human skin Like bees, mosquitoes evolved from earlier flies and dragonflies about 200 million years ago, during the Jurassic period. Mosquitoes have six legs like [...]
Bee on a flower What are arthropods? Insects, spiders, crabs, and lobsters are all arthropods, so there are a lot of arthropods on Earth. Annelid worms All our biology articles [...]
Evolution of grasshoppers: Grasshopper sitting on a leaf Why do grasshoppers jump? When grasshoppers first evolved from earlier insects, about 300 million years ago, they lived in forests of huge [...]
Bees evolve from flies The history of bees: Bees evolved from earlier flies and dragonflies about 200 million years ago, during the Jurassic period. More about flies The Jurassic period All our [...]
Evolution of ants: A bunch of ants When did ants evolve? Ants evolved from earlier wasps about 150 million years ago, during the Cretaceous period. The evolution of ants was around [...]
A Samnite man cutting the bronze pins off a newly poured lost wax statue. This is the only ancient image of lost wax casting; it's from Pompeii, about 400 BC. [...]
Anansi catches the leopard Anansi catches the leopard So now Anansi the spider had the snake to give to the god Nyame. But he still needed the other three creatures. So [...]
History of honey: Chimpanzee smashing a beehive to get honey When did people start to eat honey? Bees first began to make honey about 200 million years ago, long before [...]
