In two recent studies, scientists from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin have identified and described 40 previously unknown ...

It is one aspect of an evolutionary competition that has been going on for millions of years, with bats and moths developing new adaptations to outmanoeuvre each other. Kitching said: 'This ultrasonic ...

Nicknamed the “bone collector,” this newly confirmed caterpillar in Hawaii secretly scrounges off a spider landlord by ...

The surviving moths now get to lay eggs and have offspring ... Identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution.

In the former study, Ilik Saccheri of the University of Liverpool, U.K., and colleagues crossed light- and dark-color moths and mapped their genetic differences. From a genetic sequence of 400,000 ...

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