Category: Entomology

Here are some articles we found interesting as we perused various feeds this week. We try to keep these articles in categories related to existing sections of our Academy.

Anthropology

• Ancient stone tools found in Ukraine date to over 1 million years ago, and may be oldest in Europe.

Astronomy

• Astronomers find the corpse of a galaxy early in the universe. A galaxy that stopped forming stars 13 billion years ago gives astronomers their oldest peek at a dead galaxy through the James Webb Space Telescope’s snapshot of it just 700 million years after the Big Bang.

Entomology

• Study finds wild bees are developing tolerance to veterinary drugs. Insects ingest ivermectin along with pollen in Colombian pastures.
• Experts buy insect from collector — and accidentally find species not seen in 150 years. South American bush cricket last seen in 1862.

Geology

• Giant sea lizard Khinjaria had teeth like daggers. They dominated the seas about 66 million years ago.

Things that make us go hmmm…

• Researchers Solve Mystery of The Sea Creature That Evolved Eyes All Over Its Shell. Lots of interesting information about chitons.

And… That concludes our review of interesting articles this week. Please let us know your thoughts by posting in the comments section. We plan to periodically update these tidbits moving forward, but not as frequently as we have not been receiving many comments and insights from visitors. We really need to know what you find interesting.

Here are some articles we found interesting as we perused various feeds this week. We try to keep these articles in categories related to existing sections of our Academy.

Anthropology

• Neanderthals Used Glue to Make Stone Tools 40,000 Years Ago. A mixture of ochre and bitumen.

Astronomy

• We Finally Know What Turned The Lights on at The Dawn of Time. Small dwarf galaxies flared to life.
• The Great Wall is full of galaxies 15 million lightyears thick, stretching 500 million lightyears across the Universe.

Entomology

• Living species of daddy longlegs has two additional sets of underdeveloped eyes as embryos. Fossilized specimen found in 2014 had another set of lateral eyes.
• ‘Frozen behaviors’ in amber fossils: How to reconstruct mating behavior of long-extinct termites. 38 million years ago, this pair got trapped in resin.

Geology

• An abundant sea anemone from the Carboniferous Mazon Creek Lagerstӓtte, USA. This paper won an award for best publication of 2023. Previously thought of as jellyfish.

We are hoping readers continue enjoying these snippets of information regarding what is happening in many areas of the natural sciences. Please let us know what additional areas you wish to learn about by posting in the comments. We try to keep these articles in categories related to existing sections of our Academy.

Anthropology

• Czech and Slovak archaeologists discover ancient Mayan city in Guatemala.

Astronomy

• The reason why planets are round explained. Short answer – gravity, of course. But there is more to the story.

Entomology

• Cicadas Are Coming in 2024 in a Rare ‘Double Brood.’ Here Are the 15 States Where the Invasion Is Happening. Yes, this is happening in central Illinois as well.

Geology

• New Species of Sauropod Dinosaur Discovered in Argentina. Roughly 20 meters in length and weighing over 15 tons. Found in Late Cretaceous rocks (over 90 million years old).
• Tectonic plate under Tibet may be splitting in two.
• Newfound T. rex relative was an even bigger apex predator.

Things that make us go hmmm…

• Wrens Teach Their Babies to Sing Before They’re Hatched. Australian researchers first noticed fairywren females were singing to their unhatched eggs over a decade ago.
• Incredible Drone Footage Reveals Humpback Whales Creating A Fibonacci Spiral. Bubble net feeding at its finest.

And… That concludes our review of interesting articles this week. Please let us know your thoughts by posting in the comments below.