The Grotesque Answer to How Do Starfish Eat?
So, how do starfish eat? Have you ever extended your stomach out of your mouth when snackish? When you’re a starfish, eating gets complicated.
So, how do starfish eat? Have you ever extended your stomach out of your mouth when snackish? When you’re a starfish, eating gets complicated.
There are pros and cons to the small size of the zunzuncito, or bee hummingbird, the world’s smallest bird.
The satanic leaf tailed gecko, found only on the island of Madagascar, is the only flat-tailed gecko who camouflages itself by looking like a dead leaf.
A parasitic marine isopoda, the tongue eating louse makes its way inside the fish’s mouth, where it attaches to the tongue—all while undergoing a sex change.
The oakleaf or dead leaf butterfly is commonly cited as a classical example of camouflage: with its wings closed, it resembles a dry leaf, making it safe from predators.
The bird eating spider, also known as the Goliath birdeater, is the largest spider on the planet. Despite its name, however, it rarely preys on birds, preferring small rodents, amphibians, and insects instead.
Discovered at a depth of 1980 metres below the earth’s surface; the eyeless Deep Cave Springtail is currently the world’s deepest living creature.
An extinct flightless bird found only on the island of Mauritius, the dodo has been extinct for over 350 years, giving rise to the expression “as dead as a dodo.”
Humans have unearthed only a fraction of Libyan Desert Glass, a naturally occurring glass found on a scale unlike anywhere else in the world.
So many factors surrounding sleep still baffle scientists. Flies who have remarkably similar sleeping patterns to humans are helping to unlock some of these mysteries.