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The bootlace worm, a ribbon of black slime found tangled on North Sea beaches, can stretch to more than 55 metres (longer than a blue whale), making it arguably the longest animal on Earth, and its skin secretes a neurotoxin that killed cockroaches and crabs after laboratory injection
6+ day, 7+ hour ago (1186+ words) A 55-metre specimen stranded on a Scottish beach in 1864 made the bootlace worm a contender for the longest animal on Earth. In 2018, Swedish researchers found its mucus contains a peptide neurotoxin that paralyses crabs and kills cockroaches, while leaving mammalian…...
Study finds 60% of new species specimen discovered in Global South are archived in wealthy nations
1+ week, 1+ day ago (724+ words) A new study put numbers to a longstanding imbalance in science: Many of the mammals discovered in poorer countries are still being physically archived in richer ones. The official record of biodiversity helps determine who has access to knowledge, research…...
Meet Pando: The ancient???Trembling Giant??? that may be the largest living thing on Earth
1+ week, 5+ day ago (653+ words) Deep in Utah’s Fishlake National Forest, what appears to be an ordinary aspen grove is actually a single enormous organism. Known as Pando, the sprawling colony of quaking aspens is connected by one underground root system and is widely regarded…...
At Cumming Nature Center, a big find of a tiny creature
1+ week, 5+ day ago (556+ words) It’s a warm August afternoon, and a gentle breeze rustles the firs and sugar maples at the Rochester Museum & Science Center's Cumming Nature Center in Naples. Judy Dobles, a retiree from Kodak's finance department and now volunteer at the Nature…...
U of I Researchers Discover New Spider Species in North Central Idaho
1+ week, 6+ day ago (230+ words) MOSCOW, ID — University of Idaho researchers have discovered a previously unknown spider species believed to live only in a small area of North Central Idaho. The nickel-sized, dark-colored spider was named Hexura vandal in honor of the university’s Vandal mascot....
New spider species honors the Vandals
1+ week, 6+ day ago (529+ words) Newly discovered spider species highlights a unique Idaho ecosystem and could become Idaho’s official state spider MOSCOW, Idaho — Along came a spider, bringing acclaim to the Vandals. A University of Idaho research team has discovered a previously unknown species of…...
Spiders are barely noticed underfoot, but a peer-reviewed 2017 estimate put their annual global prey kill at 400–800 million tonnes — a range whose upper end is about twice the roughly 400 million tonnes of meat and fish humans consume each year
2+ week, 2+ day ago (293+ words) The planet's spiders consume as much prey annually as humanity eats meat and fish—yet we barely notice them working....
New fish species found living underground is colorless, blind, and has no ribs
2+ week, 2+ day ago (1006+ words) A blind, colorless fish pumped from a well in India is a new genus: the first fish species ever found living entirely underground. A blind, colorless fish barely an inch and a half long has turned out to be something…...
Sifting leaf litter on a 112 square mile Japanese island, researchers turned up an orange spider a sixteenth of an inch long with six eyes and a hardened plate locked across its abdomen
2+ week, 2+ day ago (784+ words) A handful of dead leaves goes into a bag, and the bag goes into a sieve. What falls through is mostly crumb and grit and root hair. Somewhere in it, something the size of a sesame seed is walking. Orange…...
World???s largest freshwater fish? Giant stingray weighing 300 kg found in Cambodia???s Mekong river
2+ week, 6+ day ago (420+ words) A giant freshwater stingray weighing around 300 kg (661 lb) has been recorded in Cambodia’s Mekong River, highlighting just how extraordinary the river’s underwater world can be. The enormous female stingray was caught by fishermen in the Stung Treng region of Cambodia....