The orbital septum is a thin fibrous membrane that separates the preseptal soft tissue from the postseptal orbital ...

Taylor Swift is now the namesake of a genus of plant-feeding insects from Australia that were previously unknown to science. Sarah Schroeder, a UC Riverside doctoral student in entomology, hopes that ...

Taylor Swift, the award-winning billionaire singer and songwriter, is getting a new honor: The megastar is the namesake of several recently discovered species of plant-feeding insects from Australia.

One species of bacteria have developed a unique mechanism for coping with overpopulation. They change their shape. Researchers at the University of Texas, Austin, describe a newly discovered mechanism ...

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A new estimate of insect diversity suggests there are at least 14 million to 20 million species buzzing and crawling around the globe. That’s double or triple other recent estimates, most of which peg ...

Antes de los colorantes artificiales, el rojo de la grana cochinilla dominaba el mundo entero. Este pigmento natural proviene de un pequeño insecto mexicano. Su nombre científico es Dactylopius coccus ...

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Cochineal is a natural red pigment extracted from the cochineal insect (Dactylopius coccus), which parasitizes cacti native to Central and South America. In ingredient lists for food and cosmetics, it ...

Three-hundred-million years ago, Earth was very different. The continents had coalesced into Pangea, which was dominated in its equatorial regions by vast coal-swamp forests. With high atmospheric ...