This is the first time that scientists have tested how bumblebee queens fare when submerged for long periods, and the findings shed new light on the insects’ adaptations and their resilience to ...

Scientists believed that these conditions provide protection from flooding, which would be fatal to many terrestrial organisms, but the study shows that eastern common bumblebees can survive for ...

“These are terrestrial organisms, they’re not really designed to be underwater,” he said. The team then carried out an experiment involving 143 common eastern bumblebee queens and found that ...

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Underwater acoustics or hydroacoustics is the study of sound propagation in water and its interaction with the water's boundaries and contents. Underwater acoustics has widely attracted attention ...

A physical gill occurs in insects that use bubbles to breathe underwater. Insects have smaller oxygen requirements, and the amount of oxygen that diffuses from the water into the air of the bubble ...

A physical gill occurs in insects that use bubbles to breathe underwater. Insects have smaller oxygen requirements, and the amount of oxygen that diffuses from the water into the air of the bubble ...

The first two answers were straightforward. Male croakers are one of many marine fishes that make underwater sounds. Their ...

Presenting the world's smallest (and scrappiest) scuba diver: A species of semi-aquatic lizard produces a special bubble over its nostrils to breathe underwater and avoid predators, according to ...