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Shriek! Slap! Pow! The small bat wins.
Published on 14/04/2022
» NEW YORK: One morning in the Panamanian rainforest, a small fruit bat sized up his competition. The odds did not appear to be in his favor. The winged mammal, a Seba’s short-tailed bat, weighed about half an ounce. But his six opponents, fringe-lipped bats, were twice as heavy and occupying the shrouded corner where the small bat wanted to roost
How scorpion tails do the bend and twist
Published on 01/09/2021
» NEW YORK: The segments of a scorpion’s tail can move in many ways: bending up and down, twisting left and right, and bending and twisting simultaneously. A new three-dimensional reconstruction of this aggressive body part reveals a special joint that is unique to the animal kingdom and that allows the tail’s bending and twisting.