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In the early 1990s, Keith Willmott and a friend, both undergraduate students from the United Kingdom, arrived in Ecuador with ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An injured monarch butterfly has been given a second chance to fly after a rare wing transplant using donor wings from a dead ...

An injured monarch butterfly has been given a second chance to fly after a rare wing transplant using donor wings from a dead insect. Wildlife rehabilitator Janine Bendicksen performed the five minute ...

The earwig’s delicate, paper-thin wings open to more than ten times their folded size, thanks to its origami-like creases. ETH ZÜRICH and Purdue University Image As the microscopic, tear-shaped ...

The Detroit Red Wings have heard the term "rebuild" a good deal over the past several years, but never applied quite like this. There was a marvel of distraction (training camp is a grind, and they ...

Many systems in nature precisely control highly deformable structures, yet monitoring deformations has posed a significant challenge for biologists and engineers. By measuring and modeling the ...