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Discovering beautiful worms that know how to spray glue in Vietnam
Recently, the research team from Leipzig University (Germany) discovered velvet worms (scientific name: Onychophora) first found in Vietnam.
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Biology
Spiders use 'bird prey'
Experts have discovered that a new species of spider is very cunning, they use the prey of prey to protect themselves against the enemy.
Biology
Dragonflies also have the ability to focus like humans
A new study suggests that dragonflies also have nerve cells to perform labor-intensive tasks - cells found only in primates.
Biology
Detecting eyeless spiders
Scientists have just welcomed the newest member of the prey spider family, which is an invisible spider (no eye). Predatory spiders, like most other spiders, are natural…
Biology
how does the bloodthirsty spider choose moof?
A recent scientific study shows that blood-thirsty jumping spiders in eastern Africa detect primitive mosquitoes by observing their antennae. The BBC said the team of sc…
Biology
Ants 'diet' for carnivorous plants
Nepenthes bicalcarata live in the nutrient-rich peat forests on Borneo island. It is not a very effective carnivore. Their warm-leaf leaves lack smooth walls and sticky,…
Biology
Typical carnivorous plants
The crown, the scientific name is Drosera burmannii Vahl. The frame has more than 170 subspecies. They are the most common carnivorous plants in the world, they are foun…
Biology
Horror rat carnivore
This is a plant close to Nepenthes spathulata, a carnivorous pitcher plant found on Indonesian and Sumatra islands of Indonesia. This plant can grow to more than 5 meter…
Biology
Spiders use ants
Scientists discovered that yellow-eyed spiders have added a chemical when silk weaves a net to kill ants who are wandering to the spider web to eat insects entangled in…
Biology
Mysterious jump of Adanson spider
Adanson jumping spiders have a unique distance judgment that helps them pounce on the prey without spider web. There are many different visual systems used by organisms…
Biology
'Immobilized assassin' under the sand
The underground leaves help a tree in Brazil catch and digest worms, a unique way of capturing prey in carnivorous plants that now biologists know.
Biology
Insects just need to be scared to die
Canadian researchers say that the presence of a predator can also be stressful enough to kill prey, even if predators don't really catch and eat prey, according to the n…
Biology
Turn 'vampire' bacteria into living antibiotic
US scientists think it is possible to use a vampire-like bacterium
Biology
See the tree 'eat meat' sparrow
The warm lid killed and 'eaten' a blue corn sparrow at a garden in Somerset, England.
Biology
Giant water bugs catch snakes eating meat
A Japanese scientist was fortunate to capture rare scenes of a giant water bug catching snakes and eating baby turtles.