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A mother's burden
For female freshwater mussels, reproduction is a stressful affair. Now zoologists have discovered an extra burden on pregnant Texas hornshell...
Natural History, 09/01/09 by Graciela Flores · More from publication -
Avian moltitasking
To avoid getting grounded, birds must periodically molt, shedding and regrowing worn-out feathers. Once or twice a year small birds quickly replace...
Natural History, 09/01/09 by Graciela Flores · More from publication -
Wrong as rain
Raindrops just broke their own speed record: they can drop faster than anyone thought possible. Larger drops are speedier than smaller ones...
Natural History, 09/01/09 by Graciela Flores · More from publication -
Venom in your eye
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Sway your head in front of a spitting cobra, and in no time, you will be sprayed with venom from...
Natural History, 04/01/09 by Graciela Flores · More from publication -
Buzzing bodyguards
Even a novice naturalist can tell a bee from a wasp. So shouldn't caterpillars, which are unharmed by the former but destroyed by the latter, be...
Natural History, 03/01/09 by Graciela Flores · More from publication -
Queen of her castle
In fiddler-crab architecture, chimneys-cylindrical mud walls the crabs build around their burrow entrance--have various functions. Depending on the...
Natural History, 02/01/09 by Graciela Flores · More from publication -
Red-hot cones
The western conifer-seed bug, Leptoglossus occidentalis, has a peculiar world view. Objects stand out against the background as a result not of...
Natural History, 02/01/09 by Graciela Flores · More from publication -
How to harvest a harvester
Harvester ants are among the most aggressive and venomous stinging insects known. Although their stings, in quantity, can kill, the horned lizard...
Natural History, 12/01/08 by Graciela Flores · More from publication -
Holy ground
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] To honor their gods and goddesses, ancient Greeks often poured blood or wine on the ground as...
Natural History, 12/01/08 by Graciela Flores · More from publication -
Big mamma, little papa
When a female Cook Strait giant weta, a four-inch-long insect resembling an overstuffed cricket, pairs up with a male--usually half her size--they...
Natural History, 11/01/08 by Graciela Flores · More from publication
