An ant that disappears into the forest floor, a bird that demands attention from mates—for these animals, an inky black ...

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A scientist found some “velvet” creatures with “bulbous” tails in rock crevices of Queensland and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from the Flinders Shire Council As night ...

Read more Spiders think with their webs ... the researchers compared the venom peptide sequences from four other velvet ant species. “All of them have an almost identical version of the peptide ...

Despite their name, tarantula hawks (Pepsis genus) are actually a species of spider wasp. You can see the largest species ... and slightly more painful than that of a velvet ant. Tarantula hawks are ...