Survival is a sticky situation for many in the animal world. The glowworm is no exception. These fly larvae, native to Australia and New Zealand, catch dinner by using their bioluminescent blue “butts ...

There’s a spider in Britain that’s a tad unusual. Instead of spinning “thick” silk threads (in this case, thick means several micrometers), the garden center spider can spin tiny nano-scale threads ...

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand, Dec. 14 (UPI) --Walk through a cave in New Zealand and there's a chance you might find yourself face to face with sticky strands of urea beads. As new research revealed, a ...

When mussels are mentioned, a nice plate of moules-frites might come to mind, but some bivalves are peskier than they are tasty. Dozens of mussel species living in both fresh and saltwater are a huge ...

When a bug flies into a spider web, the game is over. It’s almost instantly stuck, and a sitting duck for the web’s owner. When you or I walk into a web, we’re a little better off than the bug because ...

Micro mixing: focussed ion beam–scanning electron microscope image and 3D reconstruction showing the secretion process of the protein vesicles (green) from the cellular tissue (yellow) into the lumen ...

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Remnants of a spider web embedded in ancient amber suggest that some spiders’ diets haven’t changed much in millions of years. Separate research indicates that some groups of modern spiders that spin ...