Following inaction from the government, fishing communities and conservationists are taking it upon themselves to set up and ...

It turns out these balls of spikes are actually 5-sided echinoderms and thus related to starfish! We look at their beautiful ...

Joel Harrison Gayford, a marine biologist at James Cook University, in Australia, who specializes in research focused on ...

They can multiply themselves by budding, and they also grow eggs and sperm to reproduce. Larval forms will go through complete metamorphosis. Freshwater bryozoans form hard, round statoblasts ...

By carefully studying odd larval forms, which often have extensive head spines, oversized fins and translucent skin, Johnson could glean insights into how fish evolved. According to Baldwin ...

During that time, the larval form of the insects feeds on plant roots. In 2024, Brood XIX, a 13-year brood, emerged in much of Middle and Southeastern Tennessee. However, Brood XIX is expected to ...

Bird beaks come in almost every shape and size—from the straw-like beak of a hummingbird to the slicing, knife-like beak of ...

Periodical cicadas spend most of their lives — 13 or 17 years, depending on the species — in larval form, burrowed beneath the soil and feeding on fluids from plant roots. In springtime ...

They are searching the forest floor for females, who remain in a larval form through adulthood. The viewing trail is relatively smooth and just wide enough to let a vehicle pass. Walk leaders will ...

If the ligature is applied after the critical period has passed then the whole larva darkens and forms a puparium.

Professor Lars Schmitz joins WIRED to guide us through a giant tree of life mapping the evolution of eyes in the animal kingdom: how they work, why they've taken the form they have, and the ...