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Known as the “Amazon of the seas”, the Coral Triangle is a 5.7 million sq. km expanse across the tropical waters of Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Solomon Islands, and ...

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Not all barnacles just sit on rocks and ships. Some invade crabs, growing like a parasitic root system that hijacks their bodies. A mysterious group called y-larvae has baffled scientists for over a ...

The little egret is an elegant hunter, moving quietly through shallow water in search of food. Beetle larvae are an important source of nutrients in its diet. This footage captures its natural hunting ...

Growths on plants formed by parasitic weevils help their offspring hunker down on a Brazilian savanna and outlast the flames. By Gennaro Tomma Living things have long needed to find ways to survive ...

Opatroides punctulatus Brullé, a Mediterranean darkling beetle, has been documented in Idaho for the first time by University of Idaho entomologist Armando Falcon-Brindis. Opatroides punctulatus ...

Armando Falcon-Brindis was busy with work at the University of Idaho’s Parma Research and Extension Center last summer when a request came in from an Eagle homeowner to identify the dozens of larvae ...

While it may be an unfamiliar sensation to humans, electroreception is relatively commonplace in the animal kingdom. Sharks, bees and even the platypus all share this ability to detect electric fields ...

In the insect world, impostors could be hiding anywhere. When lifting a stone during an expedition in the Anti-Atlas Mountains in Morocco, researchers came across an unusual sight: three blowfly ...

Jacquelyn Rae Capelin, 77, of Horton Bay, MI passed away November 29, 2024 at McLaren Northern Michigan Hospital. Jacquelyn (Jackie) was born in Petoskey, MI on August 13, 1947 to Ralph and Jennie ...

Scientists at Iceland's Marine and Freshwater Research Institute have successfully reared capelin from hatch to adulthood in a laboratory setting for the first time. Capelin eggs were fertilized ...