Sometimes, the best survival strategy is disguising yourself like something no one wants to eat, much less mess with and dig ...
Many creatures use mimicry to hide from predators. This one also uses it to lure in prey. By Richard Sima It almost sounds like a playground taunt: You look like bird poop and smell like it too. For ...
Two new species of bird-dropping spiders, Phrynarachne gorochovi and Phrynarachne storozhenkoi, have been discovered in the Philippines and Borneo, expanding the known range of this genus. These ...
Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...
On September 13, 2022, Atlanta-based naturalist and garden expert Arty Schronce looked out his kitchen window and saw what he thought was a female cardinal trapped in a huge, golden spiderweb. That ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bird-dropping spider (Phrynarachne decipiens, Thomisidae) is a species of crab spider. It mimics a bird dropping in its appearance ...