Dragonflies maneuver like fighter pilots
Male dragonflies' dramatic aerial combat maneuvers emerge from relatively simple vision-based rules.
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Male dragonflies' dramatic aerial combat maneuvers emerge from relatively simple vision-based rules.
It only works for a few divisions thanks to a lot of added materials.
Current amphibian development may not have been typical of early land vertebrates.
Transferring genes across species doesn't just happen in microbes.
Our ancestors' genomes were built through successive waves of gene transfers.
Scientists in Finland found bees could solve an insect version of the classic "box-and-banana" problem.
When they're being eaten, bean plants release chemicals that draw in parasitic wasps.
"It’s a reminder of how human activity is changing the natural world in unanticipated ways.”
They seem to reorganize their tissues and then just keep living.
Iron-rich immune cells in the liver may act as sensors for magnetic fields, serving as an internal compass.
The white whales join the short, contested list of animals that see themselves.
In the process, Colossal may have handed a useful tool to developmental biology.
Distinct form of tooth protein in Homo erectus shows up in Denisovans—and us.
Different hunting patterns seem to dictate different distributions of metal.