Animal world
Ticks that live for 8 years don't need to be eaten in the laboratory
The Argas brumpti tick lives a long time without eating, and the female can even store sperm and reproduce 4 years after the male dies.
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Animal world
Sparrows specialize in foraging underwater with super skills of 'diving'
The wings of this bird have a unique mechanism that allows them to both fly in the air, but can also be used as flippers underwater, allowing them to dive deep with incr…
Biology
Discover a species of desert bacteria with a unique photosynthetic ability
Scientists have discovered a species of bacteria that can 'eat' sunlight and 'breathe' oxygen.
Biology
Discovered the world's first hermaphroditic green bean stick beetle
The stick beetle molts to reveal a hermaphroditic body with two different colored halves, surprising owners and biologists.
Archeology
'Crocodile hybrid' 240 million years old: Each tooth is a knife
One of the most terrifying beasts of its time, recently identified from fossils unearthed in Tanzania, is an archosaur, a group of crocodile-like reptiles of the Triassi…
Animal world
Plankton - The planet's largest CO2 storage 'store'
Not the land or the trees, the sea is the most effective permanent storage of CO2.
Oceanography
Strangely small creatures, but longer than blue whales
The bootlace worm is one of the longest animals on Earth. Once, they were found on the beach with a length of up to 55 meters.
Animal world
Quiz: Which animal has the longest arm?
When we think of long-armed animals, we might think of apes, but in fact there is another species that has beaten them.
Animal world
The complicated way of moving thousands of vinegar worms in a drop of water
Observing the swarm of vinegar worms swimming under a microscope, the scientists discovered that they moved in complex synchronization.
Animal world
Amazed animals make love for 14 hours, 'finished' then rolled out... dead
Although the kangaroo has a very cute face, it is extremely aggressive in mating. When the matter is over, the male may even lose his life.
Animal world
Bats and Enviable Superpowers
More than 1,400 species of bats live around the world, with the exception of Antarctica and a few remote islands. What makes this flying mammal so popular?
Archeology
100-million-year-old amber discovered containing 'insects pretending to be ants'
Chinese scientists have discovered a prehistoric insect from Cretaceous amber that shows the earliest ant-mimicking behavior.
Animal world
The story of the strange green cows in Latvia
Once close to extinction, the green cows have made a comeback over the past few decades as an irreplaceable cultural icon of Latvia.
Oceanography
Discovered the largest fin squid in the world
The newly discovered large-fin squid swam above the seabed at depths thousands of meters greater than the old record.
Animal world
Crows cause riots, causing an American town to use lasers to scare them away
An American town had to use a laser to scare away thousands of crows that caused a local riot.