Phil, Mag. from Magasin Encyclopedique, February, 1814.

The compound eyes of ancestral flies picked up only one picture point in each facet. The evolution of a means to split up the light-sensitive cells increased this number to seven, boosting the eye's ...

Cyborg cockroaches guided by ultraviolet light and motion feedback navigate obstacles autonomously, showing how noninvasive ...

THE use of radioactive tracers for labelling insects is finding many applications in field studies on dispersion and survival. In particular, the introduction of autoradiography for detecting tagged ...

Fan worms look more like feather dusters than animals. If you come across one while swimming in the ocean, all you’ll see is a beautiful spray of feathery tentacles, sprouting from a rock. These ...