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Glowing Blue Spider Among Over 70 Stunning New Species Discovered On Remote Angolan PlateauA extraordinary bright blue and black spider with electric blue patches on its black body.

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Glowing Blue Spider Among Over 70 Stunning New Species Discovered On Remote Angolan PlateauA extraordinary bright blue and black spider with electric blue patches on its black body.
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Glowing Blue Spider Among Over 70 Stunning New Species Discovered On Remote Angolan Plateau

clock-iconJune 4, 2026
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Behold! Meet The Mighty Baphomet Moth And Its Freaky-Looking Inflatable Hair PencilsAn extraordinary looking white and red both with four hairy appendages coming from its rear.

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Behold! Meet The Mighty Baphomet Moth And Its Freaky-Looking Inflatable Hair PencilsAn extraordinary looking white and red both with four hairy appendages coming from its rear.
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Behold! Meet The Mighty Baphomet Moth And Its Freaky-Looking Inflatable Hair Pencils

clock-iconJanuary 23, 2026
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For The First Time, Moths Have Been Captured On Camera Feeding On Moose TearsA bull moose is captured on camera trap with moths drinking his tears and flying close to his eyes.

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For The First Time, Moths Have Been Captured On Camera Feeding On Moose TearsA bull moose is captured on camera trap with moths drinking his tears and flying close to his eyes.
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For The First Time, Moths Have Been Captured On Camera Feeding On Moose Tears

clock-iconDecember 22, 2025
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Clothes Getting Eaten By Moths? Here's What To Domoth holes in a grey and beige sweater

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Clothes Getting Eaten By Moths? Here's What To Domoth holes in a grey and beige sweater
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Clothes Getting Eaten By Moths? Here's What To Do

clock-iconNovember 28, 2025
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First Insect Proven To Use Milky Way For Orientation Uses Its Superpower To Push Big Balls Of Poopa dung beetle resting on a ball of poop, looking to the milk way for directions

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First Insect Proven To Use Milky Way For Orientation Uses Its Superpower To Push Big Balls Of Poopa dung beetle resting on a ball of poop, looking to the milk way for directions
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First Insect Proven To Use Milky Way For Orientation Uses Its Superpower To Push Big Balls Of Poop

clock-iconAugust 18, 2025
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For The First Time, An Animal Has Been Shown Responding To Plant-Produced SoundsHealthy tomato plants with red fruit and green leaves growing in a line

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For The First Time, An Animal Has Been Shown Responding To Plant-Produced SoundsHealthy tomato plants with red fruit and green leaves growing in a line
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For The First Time, An Animal Has Been Shown Responding To Plant-Produced Sounds

clock-iconJuly 15, 2025
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5 Animals That Have Absolutely No Business Jumping (In Our Very Humble, Definitely Unbiased Opinion)southern cassowary with its mouth open

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5 Animals That Have Absolutely No Business Jumping (In Our Very Humble, Definitely Unbiased Opinion)southern cassowary with its mouth open
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5 Animals That Have Absolutely No Business Jumping (In Our Very Humble, Definitely Unbiased Opinion)

clock-iconJuly 14, 2025
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Australian Moth Is First-Known Invertebrate To Navigate By Stars On Epic 1,000-Kilometer Migrationclose up photograph of a Bogong moth

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Australian Moth Is First-Known Invertebrate To Navigate By Stars On Epic 1,000-Kilometer Migrationclose up photograph of a Bogong moth
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Australian Moth Is First-Known Invertebrate To Navigate By Stars On Epic 1,000-Kilometer Migration

clock-iconJune 18, 2025
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Meet The Giant Wood Moth, The Absolute Chonker That Is The World’s Heaviest Mothclose up of a Giant Wood Moth (Endoxyla cinereus) sheltering at night, South Australia

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Meet The Giant Wood Moth, The Absolute Chonker That Is The World’s Heaviest Mothclose up of a Giant Wood Moth (Endoxyla cinereus) sheltering at night, South Australia
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Meet The Giant Wood Moth, The Absolute Chonker That Is The World’s Heaviest Moth

clock-iconMarch 14, 2025
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World’s Longest Insect Tongue Belongs To Moth Species Predicted By DarwinImage of brown moth with a very long tongue on a white background

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World’s Longest Insect Tongue Belongs To Moth Species Predicted By DarwinImage of brown moth with a very long tongue on a white background
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World’s Longest Insect Tongue Belongs To Moth Species Predicted By Darwin

clock-iconNovember 6, 2024
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New Species Of Tropical Moth Found 7,000 Kilometers From Where It Should Bephotographs of specimens of the clearwing moth species Carmenta brachyclados; they are small insects with yellow and black striped bodies, large clear wings, and long antennae

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New Species Of Tropical Moth Found 7,000 Kilometers From Where It Should Bephotographs of specimens of the clearwing moth species Carmenta brachyclados; they are small insects with yellow and black striped bodies, large clear wings, and long antennae
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New Species Of Tropical Moth Found 7,000 Kilometers From Where It Should Be

clock-iconOctober 4, 2024
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Rosy Maple Moth: The Pink And Yellow Dazzler Of North America's ForestsRosy Maple Moth, a brightly colored pink and yellow moth, Macro Photography

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Rosy Maple Moth: The Pink And Yellow Dazzler Of North America's ForestsRosy Maple Moth, a brightly colored pink and yellow moth, Macro Photography
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Rosy Maple Moth: The Pink And Yellow Dazzler Of North America's Forests

clock-iconAugust 22, 2024
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Do Butterflies Remember Being Caterpillars?Pipevine Swallowtail Butterfly on a flower.

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Do Butterflies Remember Being Caterpillars?Pipevine Swallowtail Butterfly on a flower.
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Do Butterflies Remember Being Caterpillars?

clock-iconFebruary 14, 2024
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Color Of Insects That Died 200-Million-Years-Ago Revealed Through Fossilized Scalesarticle image

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Color Of Insects That Died 200-Million-Years-Ago Revealed Through Fossilized Scalesarticle image
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Color Of Insects That Died 200-Million-Years-Ago Revealed Through Fossilized Scales

clock-iconApril 16, 2018

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Prehistoric Moths Could Provide Important Intel On Past And Future Bug Epidemicsarticle image

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Prehistoric Moths Could Provide Important Intel On Past And Future Bug Epidemicsarticle image
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Prehistoric Moths Could Provide Important Intel On Past And Future Bug Epidemics

clock-iconFebruary 26, 2018