Showing posts with label pictures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pictures. Show all posts
Friday, 9 September 2016
G tridens the fruit fly with pictures of ants on its wings
This is unbelievable, but the fruit fly G tridens has somehow evolved to have what looks like pictures of ants on its wings. Seriously, its transparent wings have an ant design on them complete with "six legs, two antennae, a head, thorax and tapered abdomen." It's nature's evolutionary art painted on a fly's wings.
Recently spotted by the New York Times, the fruit fly is just incredible. Other flies in its family of 5,000 species have other type of markings on its wings but it's the G tridens that has something so intricate and so specific.
The idea of the ant design, as explained to The National by Dr Brigitte Howarth of Zayed University who first discovered G tridens in the UAE, is that these flies use their wings to ward off predators. The fly flashes it wings back and forth to make it seem as if the ants are moving around and that movement would confuse the predator. Nature's version of a tattoo, I guess.
References:
- New York Times
- The National
Thursday, 1 September 2016
The Cutest and funniest pictures you will ever see of animals posing for a selfie
Selfie” has probably been the most used word of 2013, we’ve seen selfies from athletes, celebrities, kids, models, rock stars and so on, but did you know that animals love to take selfies too?
We are not kidding and we’ve got the proofs: dogs, cats, sloths, kangaroos and even elephants are between the animal species caught in the act of taking hilarious self portraits.
Enjoy a gallery of 23 utterly funny photos of animals posing for a selfie. Which is your favorite one?
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