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Between April 15 and May 15, 15 scientists went on an expedition in Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique. Their goal was to determine how this protected area was recovering after being damaged during the country's 17-year-long civil war.
As it turns out, biodiversity in this part of the world is doing better ... |
5 June 2013
15:31 GMT |
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Bio-Bug is a VW Beetle modified by The Greenfuel Company to work on methane gas produced by the sewage treatment process. The project is a collaboration between the Bath-based company, GENeco, the University of Bath and the South West Regional Development Agency. This is an innovative project that wants to encourage ... |
9 August 2010
09:19 GMT |
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Do you think that only the big hunks get some humping action? In fact, it is all about strategy adapted to the size, as revealed by a new research published in the journal "Ecological Entomology." In the beetle world, the large males are those winning a direct fight for the mating game, as their large jaws exclude an... |
8 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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The chemical war is far from being invented by people. It has been employed for over 100 Ma by the bombardier beetles, over 500 species, included in the Carabidae family - tribes Brachinini, Paussini, Ozaenini, or Metriini. They can fire a mixture of chemicals from special glands in their posterior. The beetles use a... |
2 April 2008
04:17 GMT |
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A humble grass eating Mexican beetle turned in less than one century in one of the a world's worst agricultural pests. The Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata) is less than 2 cm (0.8 in) long and has 10 back black stripes. For centuries, it fed just on spiny plants and thorns. It could not attack p... |
31 March 2008
09:11 GMT |
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Which is the most powerful creature in the world? You may think of the largest beasts, like elephants or whales, but the Hercules Beetle, one of the largest beetles in the world, can pull a weight up to 850 times its own weight. Can you imagine a lion dragging a 180-tonne blue whale? But the creature has even more tr... |
12 March 2008
06:31 GMT |
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Some beetles have really bright colors, but in the case of some species, it is hard to say which is their color. The metallic woodboring beetle Chrysochroa vittata seems to be red if watched head-on, while from its side, the beetle gets a greenish hue, completely green at an 80-degree angle. Now, beetles' irides... |
5 February 2008
04:29 GMT |
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There are more described beetle species than all the other described animal species. And it is believed that there are even more undescribed species, by the order of millions, to be included into the beetles' Coleoptera Order, with 17 "superfamilies" and 168 families. Many will disappear before description, as w... |
27 December 2007
05:46 GMT |
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Beetles make the most numerous group of insects. They form the order Coleoptera ("sheathed wing") because of their elytras (thickened outer pair of wings). 25% of all species on Earth are beetles and they make for 40% of all described insects but there may be at least 5 million undescribed beetle species. They live a... |
18 December 2007
14:21 GMT |
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Nature is well ahead man in what concerns the best technological patterns. That's why researchers are mimicking natural models to improve technologies. Inspired by the microstructures of beetle feet, a team from the Max Planck Institute (MPI) in Stuttgart, Germany, and Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, US, has ... |
6 November 2007
03:02 GMT |
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Over 90 % of the species on Earth are thought to be insects, inhabiting all terrestrial habitats and eating everything. Including human corpses. That's why we can talk about forensic entomology, using insects in court cases of murder.A team at the Forensic Entomology Service in the Department of Zoology and Anim... |
10 July 2007
06:38 GMT |
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There is a tough war going on between the two sexes, in which the male wants to be sure the offspring are his, while the female is looking for the best male to father her progeny. The tougher the war, the more extreme the weaponry, like in duck males, that have developed extremely large and complicated penises. Somet... |
20 June 2007
14:51 GMT |
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