July 14, 2017

The fig beetle, an invasive species of giant beetle (about eight to ten centimeters long!) with huge tentacles, which arrived in wood shipments from the Far East and Africa about seventy years ago. Source: Jvertman / Wikimedia.

The Great Invasion

A white dresser. New works have shown that some plants such as white sedum, a relative of cabbage and mustard, produce proteins that participate in the development and function of light-sensitive organelles, the most basic eyes found in single-celled organisms such as green algae. Photo: Dawid Skalec / Wikimedia.

Do plants see the world around them?

She works at the Keda Kida Sea Center before the whale. Source: gwaar.

Did humans copy the bowing position from animals?