[featured image] Agriculture enabled humans to forsake the unforgiving ways of hunter-gathering in favour of a much more salubrious lifestyle. The cultivation of other species, which is what agriculture essentially is, rates as probably the single most important technological breakthrough in human history. With that said, humans are not the …
[featured image] There’s a small, wingless parasitic wasp (Methoca ichneumonides) that preys on a green-tiger larva by waiting for it to attack before dodging past the fearsome mandibles and slipping into the larva’s burrow. The beetle larva is now the victim and the wasp closes the deal by injecting paralysing …
[featured image] There are a lot of people who are repulsed by insects, and for good reason, as a few of them, …
[featured image] Every Spring-time, lots of fat blokes with guns take pot shots at any birds that happen to be flying over …
[featured image] The Stenus rove beetles are truly blessed in bizarre adaptations. If telescopic mouthparts weren’t enough (see last post), they also …
[featured image] Catching prey is far from easy, that’s why predators have evolved a host of means of catching and subduing their …
[featured image] Evolution has been very creative when it comes to mimicry, but the most incredible in my opinion and therefore at …
[featured image] You’d think that transvestism might be a uniquely human trait, but the animal kingdom is not without other species where …
[featured image] Orb-web spiders build an intricate trap to catch their prey, normally hapless insects; however, there are some spiders in this …
[featured image] In the right circumstances birds can evolve into giants. In the vast majority of cases they have done this on …