After 12 years of work, a huge team of researchers from the UK, US, and Germany have completed the largest and most complex brain map to date, describing every neural connection in the brain...
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Fossils of Hummingbird-Sized Ants Are Challenging What We Know About Insect Sizes : ScienceAlert
More than 47 million years ago, giant carnivorous ants swarmed the prehistoric forest floors of North America looking for prey. ‘Giant’ is no exaggeration either. Some ancient colonies that lived in what is now...
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This Sharpshooter Insect Catapults Huge Blobs of Its Pee to Save Energy : ScienceAlert
A new study outlines an incredible feat of projectile peeing discovered in an insect named for its quick-draw delivery of waste. The tiny glassy-winged sharpshooter (Homalodisca vitripennis) is able to urinate at a velocity...
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This Female Insect Pokes Out a ‘Penis’ to Penetrate The Male ‘Vagina’ : ScienceAlert
The animal world is full of delightfully odd genitals, from argonauts that detach their own sperm-bearing arm and send it off to find a female to mate with, to echidna males with four tipped...
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Insect Swarms Can Electrify The Air as Much as a Thunderstorm : ScienceAlert
Half a century ago, the American mathematician Edward Lorentz famously inquired whether a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil might, through a chaotic domino effect, set off a tornado in Texas. If he’d instead...
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