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In the wild, Andrew feeds on fish, sponges, small crustaceans, nematode worms and protozoans.
Benny's diet is very specialized, consisting mainly of the interior of Ramy nuts, nectar from the Traveller's Palm tree, some fungi and insect grubs. He is also known to raid coconut plantations, and has been seen eating lychees and mangoes, which are also plantation crops.
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Brits of all shapes and sizes have been spitting out mouth fulls of tea and shepherd's pie at the announcement that a strange unidentified insect seems to be running rampant across England, including London.
Posted on July 17, 2008 6:44 PM • 8 Comments •
Y-larvae revert from fairly complex organisms into parasitic slug monsters.
Posted on June 4, 2008 5:39 PM • 6 Comments •
A study of rare African frogs has revealed a form of self-defense hitherto unbeknownst to the scientific world: claws of pure bone that burst through the frogs' skin. And it gets worse. When the frogs are threatened they need to first "actively break" their own bones in order to create these claws.
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Posted on June 2, 2008 3:00 PM • 4 Comments •
The Arizona State University's
Institute for Species Exploration has released their much anticipated picks for the top ten best new species discovered in the last year.
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Posted on May 27, 2008 3:48 PM • 6 Comments •
Deep in the heart of the jungles of Borneo a new frog has been found that is rocking the very foundations of frog biology the world over. Why? Because, for God's sake, it has no lungs. Instead, it gets all the oxygen it needs by absorbing it through its skin.
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Posted on April 8, 2008 3:13 PM • 5 Comments •
Check out this footage from a recent international expedition called the Collaborative East Antarctic Marine Census.
Posted on February 19, 2008 4:22 PM • 10 Comments •
Any snail enthusiast knows that their favorite creatures' shells follow certain stead-fast rules: They are cone shaped, right handed, and spiral on a single axis logarithmically. Well, let me just tell you what a shock it was to the snail community when scientists recently discovered the Opisthostoma vermiculum in Malaysia. The snail version of James Dean, the Opisthostoma vermiculum's shell breaks all the rules and answers to no one. Do you think you're the boss of it? You're not.
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Posted on January 15, 2008 6:14 PM • 9 Comments •
What? What? Huh? I can't hear you? What did you say? What? A scientific expedition in the Gobi desert has yielded the holy grail for hamster lovers, film of the long-eared jerboa, a creature that has heretofore never been...
Posted on December 10, 2007 4:44 PM • 7 Comments •
A voyage sponsored by the Census of Marine Life (CoML) has netted some newly discovered species in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. The trawling net was pulled at the level between 1000 meters and 5000 meters deep. About 500...
Posted on August 6, 2007 7:54 PM • 1 Comments •
Turns out that honey bees might not have the ideal socialist society after all. Researchers at Otago University in New Zealand have discovered that worker bees behave like drones because of a powerful, brainwashing pheromone released by the queen. The...
Posted on July 23, 2007 2:59 PM • 1 Comments •
