Dragonflies are the glittery helicopters of the spiritual world—one minute they’re hovering politely over a pond, the next they’ve vanished like they remembered an appointment in another dimension.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As is the case with many animals, symbolism around dragonflies changes across countries, cultures and centuries. Once seen in ...

Megalagrion pacificum is an endangered damselfly found on Maui. Evolving over 20 million years of isolation, these native damselflies and dragonflies are threatened by habitat loss and introduced ...

When the National Weather Service’s Cleveland location tweeted out a video in September showing some huge clouds of purple, teal, and green moving across Ohio, Western Pennsylvania, and Indiana, the ...

Dragonflies are ideal hunting machines. More than 80 percent of their brain is used for processing visual information, and it is believed that some species can see objects up to 30 feet away and ...

Globally, there are about 3,000 species of dragonflies inhabiting freshwater habitats. Each species has a unique color along their bodies or wings that helps them camouflage into their surroundings, ...

In a typical tale of dragons and damsels, a valiant knight hunts and slays his foe and rescues the damsel, and everyone lives happily ever after. Standing at the edge of Anderson Marsh, where the ...

Dragonflies are known to swarm, but it's not exactly clear why. An influx of dragonflies are swarming parts of the U.S. at such an intense pace they are being picked up on radars across three states, ...

Do dragonflies eat mosquitoes? Learn how to attract dragonflies to your yard without a pond or by creating a garden pond for naiads to grow. In this episode of Mother Earth News and Friends, Kenny ...

New research on the insects may help improve drone technology. This is an Inside Science story. Dragonflies perform upside-down backflips to right themselves, even when unconscious -- a discovery that ...