These caterpillars carry a toxic chemical cocktail and Inquisition-like delivery implements—and their geographic range is expanding ...

An ant that disappears into the forest floor, a bird that demands attention from mates—for these animals, an inky black ...

Each of a gecko's toe pads is made up of rows of tiny hair-like structures known as setae. The narrow grooves between these rows naturally draw in liquid water via capillary action. This process ...

From the start, the earthworm is built for romance, with four or five pairs of hearts. Finding a match, though, that’s a ...

Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most ...

New research has revealed that a hairy crustacean—dubbed "The Hoff crab" when it was discovered in 2010—is the first species in its family to show different claw characteristics between sexes.

能够爬墙的壁虎，它神奇的脚掌启发了许多有趣的应用，包括黏性胶带、黏合剂、“黏性机器人”攀爬机器人，甚至还有无肩带胸罩设计。 现在，科学家们再度受到壁虎的启发，开发出一种新型的抗滑聚合物，可以牢牢抓住冰面。

Those microscopic hairs are called setae, each of which splits off into hundreds of even smaller bristles called spatulae. It has long been known that at microscopic size scales, the so-called van ...