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Photo stories Strange but true
Photo stories Strange but true
Strange but true
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The velvet worm is one of the strangest animals in the world. Looking like a cross between an earthworm and a millipede...
It’s quite surprising to know that one of the biggest European spiders is a wolf spiders living in high mountains...
Scorpions shine in ultra-violet (UV) light. They are the only creature to do so. Researchers can find them in the dark UV light because...
The orchid mantis from Indonesia and Malaysia, Hymenopus coronatus, is one of the most beautiful insect in the world and a symbol...
Growing is a complicated process for all Arthropods, especially for big spiders like tarantulas, with their eight long legs...
During spring in Texas and most Southern United States, male tarantulas leave their burrow to mate with females. They roam everywhere...
This snail live in some european caves. But here, in the dark, there is no vegetation to eat. So evolution transformed this mollusc in...
In the limestone hills between Texas, New Mexico and Mexico lies a wide cave complex with the biggest bats colonies of the world. Frio Cave...
Some fungi can attack animals, killing them in a in matter of days. In the tropics Cordyceps fungus spores germinate as soon as they touch the...
This is one of the most surprising insect in the world: the assassin bug (Reduvidae) Acanthaspis sp. from from dry forests of Ivory Coast...
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29-06-2010 New pictures exhibition till 31-10-2010 at Jardin des Plantes des Paris, Museè d'Histoire Naturelle: Inventaires sans frontieres (with pictures by F. Tomasinelli, X. Desmer, P. Richaud)
30-03-2010 New gallery on Animals living in Italian cities 10-03-2010 New gallery on different jobs in Genova Port for Genoa Port Center 17-02-2010 Four new small photo stories in Strange but true section 16-01-2010 New reportage on Quirimbas National Park in Mozambico 05-12-2009 New exhibit at Natural Science Museum of Bergamo, Italy - Predatori del Microcosmo until 31-01-2010 12-09-2009 More invading species pictures added
02-04-2009 New photo story on entomophagy: Insect as food 20-03-2009 Updated Caves life gallery, a look at biospeleology. |
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