extinct insects

Cyllonium are a genus of extinct insects.

Analyses of the DNA found in the specimens has improved understanding of the evolutionary lines to which the extinct insects belonged.

The Dinopanorpidae are a small family of extinct insects in the order Mecoptera (scorpionflies) that contains two genera and seven species.

Meganeura is a genus of extinct insects from the Carboniferous period approximately 300 million years ago, which resembled and are related to the present-day dragonflies.

Some extinct insects had an additional pair of winglets attaching to the first segment of the thorax, for a total of three pairs.

In it, a time anomaly leading to the Late Carboniferous period opens and releases giant extinct insects such as Arthropleura and an unknown species of spider.

Both groups of researchers succeeded in extracting fairly long sequences of nucleic acids, the building blocks of genes, from extinct insects embedded in amber found in the Dominican Republic.

Modern Archaeognatha and Thysanura still have rudimentary appendages on their abdomen called styli, while more primitive and extinct insects known as Monura had much more developed abdominal appendages, as seen here.

In The X-Files episode "Darkness Falls," Mulder theorizes that a group of missing loggers are victims of attacks by extinct insects released from dormancy when the loggers cut down a 700 year-old tree.

Amber of million-year-old Hymenaea trees have provided scientists with many clues to its prehistoric presence on Earth as well as to the often extinct insects and plants encased in it, as shown in the Jurassic Park films.