Sunday, February 24, 2013

Animal News


Fruit flies force their young to drink alcohol — for their own good

When fruit flies sense parasitic wasps in their environment, they lay their eggs in an alcohol-soaked environment, essentially forcing their larvae to consume booze as a drug to combat the deadly wasps. The discovery by [...]


Remora Fish Inspires Super-Sticky Adhesive

When a shark is spotted in the ocean, humans and marine animals alike usually flee. But not the remora – this fish will instead swim right up to a shark and attach itself to the [...]

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