"Reptiles are good for people because they help control pests such as insects and rodents," said Prof Blair Hedges of Temple University in Philadelphia, US. By publicising the plight of these ...
The authors are concerned about the impact of insect decline up along the food chain. With many species of birds, reptiles and fish depending on insects as their main food source, it's likely that ...
Several mammalian characteristics are ancestral. The first sauropsid diapsid reptile appeared in the fossil record in the Late Carboniferous: a small animal (60 - 70 cm long), agile, likely feeding on ...
All insects belong to the phylum Arthropoda. But unlike other arthropods—like lobsters, spiders, or millipedes—insects have three pairs of jointed legs, segmented bodies, an exoskeleton ...
Insects are going extinct 8 times faster than mammals, birds, and reptiles Sanchez-Bayo and the other researchers behind the February 2019 study found that bee species in the UK, Denmark ...