Category: Entomology

This terrifying spider robot predicted to soon run faster than humans

In a world of Russian cyber attacks, post-truth politics and crumbling geopolitical relations, the arrival of the terrifying Titan-XIII should allay all our fears If the tumultuous events of the past year have left you fearing that a global apocalypse is imminent, then this video will do little to ease your concerns. For scientists, in their infinite wisdom, appear to have decided now would be a good time to unleash the sentinels from the Matrix into the real world.

Bees learn to play soccer in bizarre study

Researchers first showed them what to do by using a pretend bee - a piece of striped yellow and black plastic attached to a stick. Playing one at a time, they had to push or pull the ball into a hole in the middle of the playing surface to get the reward.

Scientists discover coin-sized night frogs in India

Seven new species of frog -- some of the smallest in the world -- were found after five years of searching in the Western Ghats, a mountain range in Southwestern India known to be a biodiversity hotspot. They might have just been discovered but their future is already in doubt, according to Professor SD Biju from the University of Delhi, who led the study.

Ants run on strange spherical treadmills

When scientists want to know how an animal walks or runs - from stumpy Chihuahua Dogs to huge African Elephants - they use a treadmill. Scientists have pondered how desert ants find their way home for decades, but without knowing how the tiny critters walk they have been left stumped.

Would you try this Valentine’s Day menu? Restaurant where diners …

A restaurant in Toyko is serving up the Thai delicacy to loved-up couples who want to try something new Loved-up customers are being offered a rather unique Valentine's Day menu - cocktails and cakes served up with added dead insects. Diners were given the option of chowing down on bug carcasses or innards, that had been mixed into their alcoholic drinks or sweet desserts.

Doctors remove live cockroach from a woman’s skull in Chennai

In what can be called the most bizarre surgery, doctors in Chennai successfully removed a cockroach from a woman's skull and guess what, it was alive. According to a report published in The New Indian Express, 42-year-old Selvi felt a weird sensation around her nose and eyes at night when she asked her son-in-law to take her to the nearby clinic who then asked her to go to a government hospital where the cockroach was finally taken out.

A Bug So Strange It Deserves Its Own Order

This insect head, that researchers thought almost resembled the way aliens are portrayed, was so unusual it required the extinct insect to be placed in an entirely new scientific order. Even to an untrained eye, the 100-million-year-old insect that American entomologists are showing off this week looks a bit strange.

A Bug So Strange It Deserves Its Own Order

This insect head, that researchers thought almost resembled the way aliens are portrayed, was so unusual it required the extinct insect to be placed in an entirely new scientific order. Even to an untrained eye, the 100-million-year-old insect that American entomologists are showing off this week looks a bit strange.

California scientist names moth species after Donald Trump new

A scientist in California has named a newly discovered moth species after President Donald Trump, saying the white and yellow scales on the insect's head are reminiscent of Trump's blond hairdo. The moth was named Neopalpa donadltrumpi by evolutionary biologist Dr. Vazrick Nazari, who discovered it while dissecting moths and noticing that three specimens had a distinct wing pattern and unique DNA profile, the Sacramento Bee reported Wednesday.

California scientist names moth species after Donald Trump

A scientist in California has named a newly discovered moth species after President-elect Donald Trump , saying the white and yellow scales on the insect's head are reminiscent of Trump's blond hairdo. The moth was named Neopalpa donadltrumpi by evolutionary biologist Dr. Vazrick Nazari, who discovered it while dissecting moths and noticing that three specimens had a distinct wing pattern and unique DNA profile, the Sacramento Bee reported Wednesday.

California scientist names moth species after Donald Trump

Scientists in California have named a newly discovered moth species after President-elect Donald Trump , saying the white and yellow scales on the insect's head are reminiscent of Trump's blond hairdo. The Sacramento Bee reports that a report by researchers at the University of California , Davis, on the new species became available Tuesday.

Massive secret insect migrations ‘equivalent of 20,000 reindeer’

Trillions of insects buzz and flutter across southern England each year in secret migrations that move the biomass equivalent of 20,000 flying reindeer, scientists have revealed. Trillions of insects buzz and flutter across southern England each year in secret migrations that move the biomass equivalent of 20,000 flying reindeer, scientists have revealed Trillions of insects buzz and flutter across southern England each year in secret migrations that move the biomass equivalent of 20,000 flying reindeer, scientists have revealed.

Why do birds have beaks and not teeth?

The 154 million-year-old limusaurus had tiny, sharp teeth as a hatchling that it gradually lost as it grew up, according to new research published in the journal Current Biology on Thursday. The finding is a first for the fossil record and may shed light on why birds have beaks and not teeth.