The appearance of flowers drew animals into the plant reproduction game as carriers for pollen – not for the first time, as a small number of gymnosperms are known to be insect pollinated – but at a level of control and specificity never before seen. Angiosperms have recruited ants, bees...
Ontario, my Science Borealis colleague, Robert Gooding Townsend and I chatted with Ed Yong, author of the New York Times bestseller, I Contain Multitudes, about getting started in science communication, using humour in your writing, and whether science blogging is dead, among other topics...
Reproduction and Social Behavior Naked mole rats and other mole rats form colonies, much like bees and ants.Kerstin Klaassen / Getty Images What dobees, ants, and mole rats have in common? All are eusocial animals. This means they live in colonies that have overlapping generations, division o...
In a strange evolutionary twist of reproduction, the malesactually fuse themselvesto the females. Their fins, teeth and eyes disappear, along with a few internal organs, ultimately turning the two individuals into one. What's left of the male's body essentially becomes a storage tank for sperm...
(Reproduction…not the actual gloves) “And then I found the glove,” Peele said. There were actually two gloves. Again, not knowing if the objects were radioactive, and whether he might have to at some point simply get rid of the gloves, Peele hid one in a small cavern under some ...
She knows nothing of human reproduction. She has no clue that an encounter nine months earlier — which had been in no way any different from any of the violent or playful encounters that she had grown up with — had caused her instability and collapse at the place of waste. She has no...
Native to New Guinea and Australia, these animals are the size of a house cat but a whole lot stranger: tiny toothless mouths, quill-like hairs...and multiheaded genitalia.
Their Reproduction Is a Mystery to Scientists There is such a lot of things that are still unknown about the Blobfish. Some facts will disclose to you that reproduction is one of the riddles surrounding this creature. We do realize that the female Blobfish can lay a huge number of pink eggs...
Everything about the Suriname toad is hideous. First there’s its disturbing appearance. It basically looks like road kill…that is, road kill that all of the other road kill try to keep away from. It’s method of reproduction is just as horrid. During the “mating dance” eggs and sper...
Velvet worm reproduction is as bizarre and unsettling as the way that this animal finds food. Yet the worst of the bodily damage sustained during reproduction is inflicted by a certain type of female velvet worm after interaction with a selected male. Velvet worm males in the family Peripatops...