During the age of dinosaurs, small predators with unexpectedly advanced eyes hunted in the darkness roughly 100 million years ago. The tiny creatures in question were lacewing larvae. Although adult ...

The newborn larvae from the Early Cretaceous period were determined to be green lacewings. The most noteworthy finding was the egg bursters, the tiny structures the hatchlings utilized to scratch ...

We are investigating the unusual system of communication that has evolved in green lacewings of the group Chrysoperla carnea. Insects in this group communicate using vibrational signals produced by ...

The tapiroid Heptodon drinks in the shallows, while the small proto-hedgehog Silvacola acares stalks a green lacewing (Pseudochrysopa harveyi) in the foreground.