"When a dragonfly hunts, it hovers perfectly still and positions itself between its prey and a shadow cast behind it by, say, ...

Some things just work well together. Peanut butter and jelly. Bacon and eggs. Wine and cheese. And when we step out of the ...

Flies are big-time pollinators which have never got the credit they deserve for this service ...

You may be surprised by which of these house bugs are actually helpful and which are downright dangerous. Either way, we’ll ...

Each arm has a tiny eye at the tip, meaning a five-armed starfish has five eyes, while some species with more arms have even more. These molluscs have up to 200 tiny, blue eyes lining the edges of ...

The journal Advanced Materials recently published a study introducing a new method for monitoring molecular processes deep ...

Researchers reconstruct the tiny eye of Megaphragma viggianii in 3D, revealing adaptations and possible technological applications.

During the age of dinosaurs, small predators with unexpectedly advanced eyes hunted in the darkness roughly 100 million years ago. The tiny creatures in question were lacewing larvae. Although adult ...

“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it … he who doesn’t … pays it.” That quote, often attributed to Albert Einstein, perfectly encapsulates ...

Two elegant flying insects are similar enough that they’re confused for one another. I’m talking about the dragonfly and damselfly. Both insects belong to the Odonata order, with damselflies grouped ...

A “smiling” damselfly and shimmering beetle captivated judges in the Royal Entomological Society’s 2024 Photography ...

This is associated with an increase in the ommatidia size of Drosophila mauritiana, meaning the eyes of this species are larger. "Insects exhibit extensive variation in the shape and size of their ...