Parasitic fig wasps penetrate figs with zinc-hardened drill bit tips to lay eggs
Female insects have one goal in life: to find the best place to lay their eggs. For fig wasps, that is the developing fruit of the luscious…
Day: June 5, 2014
Total mass of deep sea fish in the ocean could be 10,000 million tons
The total stock of fish on the planet had been reckoned until today to be around 2,000 million tonnes. About half of them were thought to be…
Blind species of cavefish discovered in southern Indiana has an anus right behind its head
A new eyeless cavefish is described from Indiana and named after the Indiana Hoosiers. It is the first new cavefish species described from…