The whitefly, which is around one millimeter in size, can attack over 600 different plant species. (Image: Jixing Xia and Zhaojiang Guo)
The "success story"...
Sauteur d'Alfort rabbits walk handstands on their front legs instead of hopping. (Image: Carneiro M et al., 2021, PLOS Genetics)
Rabbits, hares, kangaroos,...
Cultivation with plowing or no-till. (Image: Inger Struck)
No-till as a climate aid: If farmers forego plowing before sowing, the carbon dioxide emissions from...
From penguins to whale sharks: many larger marine animals have circular movement patterns. (Illustration: Narazaki et al. / IScience)
Sea turtles, penguins, sharks and...
Three elements in the structure of insect wings ensure that collisions and wind forces cannot harm them during flight. (Image: Hamed Rajabi)
Stable, durable...
Goats could solve the problems better than sheep. (Image: Christian Nawroth)
Because of similar: sheep and goats are genetically similar, in their physique and...
New discovery from the Messel pit: the Hirmoneura messelense fly (Image: Senckenberg)
47 million years ago it buzzed from flower to flower: Scientists discovered the...
Study results suggest that humans have developed a comparatively low water requirement in the course of their evolution. (Image: caracterdesign / iStock)
One of...
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Rice plants easily absorb the toxic heavy metal arsenic through their roots, which means that rice is often considered to be highly polluted. ...
Peregrine falcon equipped with satellite tracker. (Image: Andrew Dixon)
Peregrine falcons travel thousands of kilometers to get from their breeding areas to their winter...
Searching for endangered crested newts with the species detection dog. (Image: Daniel Peter)
The list of endangered animals and plants around the world is...
This illustration shows an eyelash animal with endosymbionts highlighted in yellow inside. (Image: Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, S. Ahmerkamp)
A symbiotic partner...
The squids have again demonstrated their amazing intelligence. (Image: Alexandra Schnell)
Those who are wise wait: we can resist immediate temptation knowing that it...
Species sometimes hardly differ externally, only genetically. In the picture the "Oman barbel" Garra shamal. (Image: NHM Vienna)
They live in the few...