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  1. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🛩️🪰 Male #dragonflies engage in aerial dogfights to defend territory, using simple visual rules like fighter pilots.

    Researchers in the #UK used stereoscopic cameras to reconstruct 3D flight paths of the scarlet Trithemis aurora dragonfly. The #insects pull up to 6 Gs and compete for tail chase positioning rather than intercepting like they do with prey.

    👉 arstechnica.com/science/2026/0

    #flight #biomechanics #animals #science #nature #biomimicry #drones #research #royalsociety #arthropods

  2. Feeding traces on #fossil leaves help #researchers identify factors leading to enormous #herbivore diversity phys.org/news/2023-08-fossil-f

    #FossilLeaves reveal drivers of herbivore functional diversity during the #Cenozoic pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2300

    "the diversity of #herbivorous #insects evolved over the last 60 million years primarily through the shared use of food #plants. The results are based on the analysis of feeding traces left by #arthropods on more than 45,000 fossil leaves."