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Invading hordes of crazy ants may have finally met their kryptonite

When tawny crazy ants move into a new area, the invasive species is like an ecological wrecking ball -- driving out native insects and small animals and causing major...

1 April 2022 news ants | ecological

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Spiders use webs to extend their hearing

Everyone knows that humans and most other vertebrate species hear using eardrums that turn soundwave pressure into signals for our brains. But what about smaller anim...

1 April 2022 news arthropods | extend

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Fleshing out the bones of Quetzalcoatlus, Earth’s largest flier ever

Look around any wetland today and you're likely to see 3-foot-tall egrets or 4-foot-tall herons wading in the shallows in stealthy search of fish, insects or crustace...

10 December 2021 news bones | crustaceans

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First dinosaur era crab fully preserved in amber discovered

Fossils trapped in amber provide a unique snapshot of the anatomy, biology, and ecology of extinct organisms. The most common fossils found in amber, which is formed ...

25 October 2021 news animal | animal health

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Mammals on the menu: Snake dietary diversity exploded after mass extinction 66 million years ago

Modern snakes evolved from ancestors that lived side by side with the dinosaurs and that likely fed mainly on insects and lizards. Then a miles-wide asteroid wiped...

18 October 2021 news dietary | Insects

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Birds learn to avoid plants that host dangerous insects

Young birds that eat insects with conspicuous warning colouration to advertise their toxicity to would-be predators quickly learn to avoid other prey that carry the s...

11 October 2021 news birds | Insects

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City-living bees benefit most from specific types of urban ‘greening’

Converting vacant urban lots into greenspaces can reduce blight and improve neighbourhoods, and new research shows that certain types of such post-industrial reclamat...

9 August 2021 news bees | ecosystem

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