Scientists develop beetle-inspired device for skincare. Drawing inspiration from nature, a team of international scientists have invented a smart device for personalized skin care modeled…
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Is It Cheaper To Be Bigger? Evolutionary Lessons From the Extreme Weapons of Giraffe Weevil Warriors
Is It Cheaper To Be Bigger? Evolutionary Lessons From the Extreme Weapons of Giraffe Weevil Warriors
A female New Zealand giraffe weevil (Lasiorhynchus barbicornis) taken at Matuku Reserve. Credit: Christina Painting, CC BY-SA 4.0 Nepalese craftsman, Chandra Bahadur Dangi, holds the…
‘Unshackled’ Palm-Destroying Beetles Could Soon Invade Australia – “We Thought We’d Outsmarted Them”
‘Unshackled’ Palm-Destroying Beetles Could Soon Invade Australia – “We Thought We’d Outsmarted Them”
An adult coconut rhinoceros beetle in hand. Credit: Forest and Kim Starr A destructive pest beetle is edging closer to Australia as biological controls fail,…
The tiny beetle Triamyxa coprolithica is the first-ever insect to be described from fossil feces. Credit: Qvarnström et al. The tiny beetle Triamyxa coprolithica is…
Ecological reconstruction of Cretophengodes azari. Credit: Dinghua Yang Bioluminescence has fascinated people since time immemorial. The majority of organisms able to produce their own light…
A female sugarcane shot-hole borer Xyleborus affinis grows to about two millimeters. Credit: Peter Biedermann / University of Wuerzburg They belong to the bark beetle…
Native to desert habitats in Southern California, the diabolical ironclad beetle has an exoskeleton that’s one of the toughest, most crush-resistant structures known to exist…
Bombardier Beetle. Credit: Stevens Institute of Technology How the Beetle Got Its Bang If you want to see one of the wonders of the natural…