A toothy leech, a jumping cockroach, a glow-in-the-dark mushroom and a fruit-eating lizard are in the top ten of the year's new species, which have been selected by the International Institute for Species Exploration of the University of Arizona and a committee of taxonomists from around the world.
Robert Wessells has shown that it is. This researcher at the University of Michigan School of Medicine (USA) subjects his fruit flies to exhausting daily exercises in order to understand how their genes respond to exercise, and thus uncover clues that could one day help them people stay healthier and more active in old age.
More than 300 million years ago, an insect landed on a muddy surface and, when it flew off again, it left behind a complete impression of its body that has remained etched into a rock in Massachusetts (USA) to this day.
An international team of researchers has drawn the most complete map of the evolutionary history of flies, providing an ideal framework for comparative studies of these ubiquitous insects. They call it the "periodic table of flies" and it is published today in the magazine 'PNAS'.
Researchers at the Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology of the United States Department of Agriculture have used the DNA of the red fire ant to study its movements during its expansion through Argentina, the United States, Asia, Australia ...
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the category of Ecology and Conservation Biology has gone to the British naturalist Edward O. Wilson in its third edition, considered the father of the term biodiversity, as well as "one of the most important thinkers influential of our time ".
The coastal grasshopper ('Platycleis affinis') is the species with the largest testes in relation to its body mass in the animal kingdom. Specifically, they account for 14 percent of its weight, according to a study carried out by researchers from the universities of Derby and Cambridge.
Acacias in Kenya (Africa) would be cut down and mercilessly eaten by elephants if it weren't for their tiny allies: ants a billion times smaller than the pachyderms that nevertheless manage to scare them away.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
