A new species of blind, underground predatory ant has been discovered in the Amazon, and it seems that it descends from the first ant lineages, which appeared 120 million years ago. During his research studies in the Amazonian jungle area, near the city of Manaus, Brazil, Christian Rabeling from the University ... |
17 September 2008
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Sex toys may be made not only of plastic; and only by humans. Nature has got its own. For humans, many flowers have an erotic symbolism, like the rose in the Western World (and this, since the ancient Greeks and Romans, who identified the rose with their goddesses of love - Aphrodite, respectively Venus), but also th... |
14 April 2008
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There's no Voodoo or tetrodoxin neurotoxin from pufferfish involved in this case. And these Zombies will surely die eaten alive. In a new research published in the "Journal of Experimental Biology", Israeli researchers have found how the parasitic jewel wasp manages, through a venom injected directly into a cock... |
7 December 2007
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They are an annoyance that can ruin our pleasantest trip. But in rural areas, with so many domestic and wild animals around, the insects' proliferation is unavoidable, and with them come their bites. That's why people have looked for many natural remedies to alleviate them. To relieve rapidly the uneasiness... |
28 September 2007
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Doctors say that a cup of wine per day is pure health. But sometimes just one cup can send you to hospital and it's not because of alcohol abuse. A Spanish team has found that wasp venom in wine and grape juice seems to be the cause of wine poisoning, severe allergies induced by small quantities of ingested wine... |
16 August 2007
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When it's about sex, the main goal is reproduction. But when it's about calling for sex, the call can bring the end of the caller's kind. Brazilian researchers found that parasitoid wasps spy on the "sex talk" of female stink bugs in order to detect new flash for their eggs. The parasitoid wasps seem d... |
20 April 2007
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That's a real sacrifice: a lot of work and no sex at all...The social insects, like bees, wasps, ants or termites, offer some of the most interesting examples of altruism in the natural world: the sterile individuals from the workers' cast renounce to their own reproduction for the greater good of the colon... |
12 April 2007
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