The night snake, whose scientific classification is Hypsiglena torquata, is a small nocturnal snake found in a broad but ...

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Common Name: Modern Human. Other names: "Man," "the naked ape." Current Distribution: Worldwide. Extremely adaptable and intelligent, it has acclimated to nearly every ecosystem through evolutionary ...

Euchelicerata is a large group of arthropods comprising horseshoe crabs, scorpions, spiders, mites and ticks, as well as the extinct sea scorpions and chasmataspidids. Setapedites abundantis — a new ...

The prize for the smallest animal goes to a group of microscopic species. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Tiny animals are, by ...

Introduction: Eukaryotic life depends on the functional elements encoded by both the nuclear genome and organellar genomes, such as those contained within the mitochondria. The content, size, and ...

CBSE Class 11 MCQs for Biology Chapter 4: Class 11 is the foundation for Class 12. The type of questions, format, and pattern that students face in Class 11 will be the same as in Class 12. This helps ...

Rust fungi (Pucciniales, formerly Uredinales) belong to subphylum Pucciniomycotina, which is considered the earliest diverging lineage in Basidiomycota (Aime et al. 2014; Padamsee et al. 2012). Other ...

Millipedes are known for their numerous legs. Just how many legs do these arthropods have? A thousand? The truth is that no species of millipede has ever been discovered with that many legs. There are ...

Despite their name, horseshoe crabs—bizarre, ancient aquatic critters—don’t look like horseshoes and they’re definitely not crabs. They’re arachnids. Just like spiders, scorpions, amblypygids, mites ...

Early one morning last week I was collecting specimens for the Oceanarium on the dock in Seabrook harbor and was astounded to find millions, possibly billions, of tiny ctenophores. They were comb ...