News tagged with crab spiders

Dual-sex butterfly hatches at Natural History Museum

A rare half-male and half-female butterfly has emerged at the Natural History Museum's Sensational Butterflies exhibition.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Oily whale bones puzzle solved

The puzzle of why some oily whale bones make great habitats for weird and wonderful deep sea creatures has been solved by Natural History Museum scientists this month.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 31, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 3 | with audio podcast




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Horseshoe crabs are one of nature's great survivors

It may look like something out of a science fiction movie, but the horseshoe crab is definitely real. In fact it is one of nature’s great survivors, lasting through 3 of the Earth’s major extinction ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Insects top latest inventory of newly discovered species

More than half of the 19,232 species newly known to science in 2009, the most recent calendar year of compilation, were insects – 9,738 or 50.6 percent – according to the 2011 State of Observed Species ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Big pest, small genome: Blueprint of spider mite may yield better pesticides

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international research team decoded the genetic blueprint of the two-spotted spider mite, raising hope for new ways to attack the major pest, which resists pesticides and destroys crops ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Entomologist discovers new wasp species

(PhysOrg.com) -- A warrior wasp? A wasp with jaws longer than its front legs? The new species of wasp that Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and professor of entomology at the University ...

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created Aug 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Hundreds of new species found in Philippines

Lobsters without shells and a small shark that bulks up with water to scare off predators are among hundreds of potential new species found in the Philippines, according to a US-led biodiversity survey.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

More than 300 new species discovered in the Philippines

This spring, scientists from the California Academy of Sciences braved leeches, lionfish, whip-scorpions and a wide variety of other biting and stinging creatures to lead the most comprehensive scientific ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Fossils record ancient migrations and trilobite orgies

Few specimens inspire greater thrills among fossil collectors than a complete trilobite. These ancient arthropods – relatives of lobsters, spiders and insects – went extinct more than 250 million years ago, but ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Mar 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Walking cactus' rewrites arthropod odyssey

Fossils of a bizarre animal dubbed the "walking cactus" have shed light on the evolution of crabs and spiders, Chinese researchers reported in the journal Nature on Wednesday.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 23, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (19) | comments 7

Unusual orange lobster saved from the pot

What's unusual about this orange lobster? Its alive! Lobsters are usually a brownish-green colour when living and turn orange when they have been cooked. But a rare live reddish-orange coloured specimen has ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 06, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Seabed biodiversity in oxygen minimum zones

Some regions of the deep ocean floor support abundant populations of organisms, despite being overlain by water that contains very little oxygen, according to an international study led by scientists at the ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 24, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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