A new species and genus of tarantula found in Colombia has been named Kankuamo marquezi in honor of the famous writer Gabriel García Márquez . The tarantula is characterized by throwing balls of stinging hair to attack its victims. It would be the first tarantula of a subfamily to use its stinging defense hairs for … Read more
Reef fish see colors that humans cannot perceive , according to a study by researchers at the University of Queensland (Australia). Specifically, the studies, which have been published in the Royal Society Open Science , were carried out with specimens of triggerfish by a team from Professor Justin Marshall’s Sensory Neurobiology Laboratory at the Queensland … Read more
There was once an extremely simple creature such as the slime mold ( Dictyostelium discoideum ) that puzzled scientists for a long time and whose behavior only began to be deciphered when the barriers that separate the different disciplines were broken until Molecular Biology and Physics they shook hands, and also embryology, mathematics and computer … Read more
A recent study concludes that bees, those tiny buzzards that pay homage to a queen, are capable of imitating other bees and learning to pull a string that gives them access to a good cocktail of sugar water. That is, they are capable of teaching a puzzle to their peers , as the study, published … Read more
Despite the fact that we tend to have our eyes fixed on the celestial vault and our dreams deposited on distant planets, our own world is a great unknown, and it is also much more fertile in wonders than most of us realize . To prove it, the second part of the documentary Planet Earth … Read more
The naked mole rat ( Heterocephalus glaber ) is immune to pain , at least immune enough to flinch if it nibbles on a chili pepper or the water in which it is submerged is too hot. Researchers at the Max-Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin have just published in Cell Reports a study … Read more
Synthetic biology is going to bring us all kinds of wonders, but also new forms of crime. For example, biotechnology enables the transformation of a world of narcotic drugs made from plants to another of drugs of synthetic origin. For example, they could take the genetic code of the active ingredients in marijuana, green poppy, … Read more
One of the most repeated arguments about organic farming being better compared to conventional or even transgenic farming is the taste: tomatoes no longer taste like they used to. However, the real reason tomatoes lose flavor (and are more affordable than their organic counterparts) is that they are stored in the fridge to last longer … Read more
200 poisonous glands, 414 legs and 4 penises (actually modified legs), that’s all we can count on in this new species just discovered in unexplored marble caves in California’s Sequoia National Park. It is a millipod or millipede that has been named Illacme tobini in honor of the biospeleologist Ben Tobin of the United States … Read more
76% of penguins mate with the same partner throughout their lives . However, how can a penguin react when his partner is unfaithful to another? The bloody image of that reaction is what we can see in this preview of the documentary shot by National Geopraphic about the confrontations that occur between animals . The … Read more
160 kilometers per hour , exceeding the current mark, the more than 100 per hour that the common swift reaches, is the highest speed developed in vertical flight in an animal, and that record is a species that until now had not been studied in that sense. , specifically the Brazilian tailless bat ( Tadarida … Read more
Due to smell, seabirds identify the increasingly ubiquitous plastic in the oceans as food, which ultimately has a lethal consequence for their body , as they end up feeding on that plastic. Specifically, marine plastic debris emits the smell of a sulfurous compound , and this is what birds have always relied on to find … Read more
Equipped with strong jaws and a stinger that expels a venom several times more powerful than cyanide or arsenic , Myrmecia pyriformis , the bulldog ant, is a species of bull ant discovered in the coastal regions of Australia that is not as harmless as the rest of the ants we know. According to the … Read more
It is difficult to imagine something or someone living at an altitude of 6700 meters , but it is more difficult if what survives at that altitude where there is hardly any oxygen and the temperatures sink to the marrow, is a spider. Discovered in 1924 on Mount Everest, the Himalayan jumping spider ( Euophrys … Read more
The longest worker ant on the dot has a body 3.7 centimeters in length. It is the Australian giant ant or bulldig ant ( Myrmecia brevinoda ), of the bull ant species. On the other hand, the smallest ant in the world is the Cerebara bruni , a native species of Sri Lanka, which has … Read more
Often, as soon as we examine the Earth’s biodiversity, we can find specimens that, had they been found on an extraterrestrial planet, would have been perfectly plausible to us as such. This is the case of the next octopus, the brightest in nature . While many species of squid have evolved to emit a light … Read more
A team of scientists has discovered a new species ( Trichoura pardeos ), whose genus lives exclusively in arid environments in southern Africa . The study on the finding has been published in African Invertebrates . The genus Trichoura now consists of seven species. The specimens are generally reddish brown in color with silvery, white … Read more
The abyssal depths of the oceans are as unexplored as outer space, and they are also as fertile in strange creatures as a good science fiction novel. The lowest point is in the Challenger Deep, in the Mariana Trench, at 10,923 meters below sea level . But you don’t have to go that far down … Read more
After an acoustic analysis, it was discovered that baboons , a medium to large primate with terrestrial habits that rarely climbs trees, make five vowel-like sounds . To make this finding , Louis-Jean Boë and his colleagues at the University of Grenoble Alpes in France had to acoustically analyze baboon grunts, roars, copulation calls and … Read more
Related to seahorses, this species was cataloged as recently as 2015. It is the red sea dragon ( Phyllopteryx dewysea ) of which, finally, we have the first video: until now we only knew of its existence from sequenced DNA from remains found on the beach. The specimen has been found more than 50 meters … Read more
Journal of Behavioral Ecology has published a study in which biologists at the University of Florida have described one of those creatures that seems to come from another planet, or simply seem like a joke of evolution. And it is that this fish that lives in the coral reefs off Panama is a monogamous hermaphrodite … Read more
Beyond the sentences between garullas and tricks of Donald Trump . Beyond his photoshoots with his wife, posing in his kitch house, all gold and glitter. Beyond his operetta histrionics. Donald Trump is also known worldwide for his hair (to the point that one late night they checked whether it was a toupee or not … Read more
According to new research from the University of Edinburgh, and published in the journal Current Biology , ants’ orientation abilities are more sophisticated than previously thought. At least when it comes to getting your bearings. And it is that, apparently, the ants make use of the position of the sun and visual memories of their … Read more
The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and the University of Otago, New Zealand, have published in Cryobiology the first molecular study of an organism capable of surviving the internal freezing of its cells . The roundworm ( Panagrolaimus sp. DAW1 ), a small Antarctic nematode, was cultivated in a coastal Antarctic penguin colony in McMurdo Sound, … Read more