Konstantin Kornev and his colleagues at Clemson University in South Carolina created 3D images of hawk moth (Manduca sexta) proboscises, and developed a model of saliva’s effect on their ...

The prevailing (and very logical) theory about this handy appendage is that butterflies and moths evolved their proboscises in response to plants that developed flowers.

Alongside Leonardo Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, disc-shaped galaxies, or the cochlea of the human ear, scientists can now count sap-feeding butterfly proboscises as aligned with the Golden Ratio.

Alongside Leonardo Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, disc-shaped galaxies, or the cochlea of the human ear, scientists can now count sap-feeding butterfly proboscises as aligned with the Golden Ratio. The ...

Only four species have been found with longer proboscises, which reach about half of the body length of the bee, according to the study. Hoplitis onosmaevae, as the new species is named, ...

Irate males guffaw loudly through their ginormous proboscises beside dozing female elephant seals who nurse their dark-hued offspring while absorbing. No paywalls. No subscriptions.