The mystery of how insects developed wings has finally been solved


In 1870, a German anatomist named Karl Gegenbaur was the first person to theorize that abdominal gills on water insects like mayflies eventually developed into wings. For the next 150 years, scientists have continued to wonder how insects got their…
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