Even the larvae of certain species can be formidable. ... Finally, they analyzed the resulting videos to glean insight into the larval anatomy and the sequence of motions involved in their strikes.

The study, published in Nature, reveals that pupae secrete a never-before observed fluid that adults and larvae immediately drink. The health of the entire colony appears to hinge on the prompt ...

The larva lures amphibians by alternately waving its antennae and moving its jaws, moving faster and faster as its prey draws closer. The movements exploit the fact that amphibians run on simple ...

He also filmed larvae of the mosquito species Psorophor ciliata, which had even more powerful and farther-reaching harpoon heads. “It’s wicked,” he said, gleefully.

Her egg turns into a larva, that will eat the paralyzed host…bit by bit. Features. CLIP: 1:19. Forest Lynx Stalks Prey. A hungry lynx learns that songbirds don't make for an easy meal.

Whether it is the larva of an already-known species of extinct lobopod is an open question. Maybe the answers are buried somewhere in the Yuan’shan shale. Nature, 2024. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024 ...

Confronted with a perplexing fish larva collected in the Florida Straits, Smithsonian scientists turned to DNA barcoding, which yielded an unexpected discovery—a match between the mysterious fish ...