A 2020 study found, for example, that bats were the main pollinators of pitayas (dragon fruit), a major crop in central ...

When you see eggs out in the wild, your first instinct is likely to preserve them, but if you see these eggs, you should ...

All mollusks build their own shells, whether they live in water or on land. Creatures like snails, clams, oysters and mussels use an organ called a mantle to secrete layers of calcium carbonate ...

For plants in the ground, we found the biological control Nemaslug is effective against slugs but not snails. There is one chemical option: pellets containing ferric phosphate. Ferric phosphate-based ...

The fish can also breathe air, allowing them to survive for several days out of water if their skin stays moist.

Mar. 11, 2025 — Researchers combine acoustic monitoring with a neural network to identify fish activity on coral reefs by sound. They trained the network to sort through the deluge of acoustic ...

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Collectively known as gastropods, the first animals with no bones we’ll take a look at are snails and slugs. They make up around 80,000 unique species, making them almost as numerous as insects ...