Ants undergo complete metamorphosis, passing through a sequence of four stages: egg, larva, pupa, and adult. An ant’s life begins as an egg. Ant eggs are soft, oval, and tiny – about the size of a period at the end of…
A composite of two clonal raider ant pupa, one transgenic, which expresses the green fluorescent calcium indicator GCaMP in its olfactory sensory neurons, located in the antennae and antennal lobes of the brain. (Credit: Taylor Hart/Rockefeller) The world’s first…
A key protein named Orco that is essential for the function of olfactory cells is also critical for the cells’ survival in ants, a new study finds. While smell plays a considerable role in the social interactions of humans—for…
Not ready for Pro? Join live science pro Want more Life's Little Mysteries? From the magnetic compasses of migratory geese and dolphin sonar to beaver dams and ant agriculture, most of the ingenious stuff we humans have invented arose millions…
Snakes are slithering venomous creatures famous for their potent bites, and spotting one almost sends chills down a person’s spine. Snakes are slithering venomous creatures famous for their potent bites, and spotting one almost sends chills down a personâs…
In a Swiss town, researchers documented the first known case of the parasitic ant Formica truncorum taking over a colony of Formica fuscocinerea.
The scale of the underlying dataset is what makes such conclusions possible. The work also highlights why the question of schedule flexibility has become urgent. How tightly annual-cycle events are linked, the authors note, will determine how vulnerable migratory birds…
Researchers developed MC-RemixIT, a self-supervised AI framework that separates Hainan gibbon calls from complex rainforest noise without clean reference recordings and improved downstream call detection accuracy by up to roughly ten percentage points. Subject of Research: Self-supervised AI source separation…
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Tiny snakes found in Southeast Asia have developed an extraordinary way to escape danger. Instead of relying on the familiar side-to-side motion of slithering, dwarf reedsnakes can rapidly roll across the ground, reaching speeds about four times faster than their…
Studies of animal minds and behaviour: intelligence, tool use, calls and communication, social life, and how animals migrate and find their way.
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