preying mantis, ladybugs) Provide food for other organisms in food webs (mosquitoes for frogs, flies for spiders, maggots & grubs for bears) Decomposers/Scavengers (dung beetles, flies) Pollination (bees, butterflies, moths) Symbiotic relationships that help other species survive (ants ...
A 2015 study published in the journal Current Biology found that two Brazilian frog species possessed bony spines on their skulls that they could use like venomous fangs. These frogs, called Bruno's casque-headed frogs (Aparasphenodon brunoi) and Greening's frogs (Corythomantis greeningi), ...
Fig. 1. Comparison of the maximum force per unit body weight at body weight about 1 kg on several animal groups. Incidentally, the latest International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, updated in 2020, has surpassed 120,000 species, with 120,372 species...
(Photograph by Peter Van Roy, Yale University; drawing by Allison C. Daley, University of Oxford) Dinnertime This is a close-up of the complex feeding apparatus that the anomalocaridid used to feed. Unlike the recently found species, earlier marine anomalocaridids hunted for prey and were at...