The Rainforest XPRIZE is a four-year, global competition to develop new methods for assessing biodiversity and demonstrating the value of threatened rainforests.

Caterpillars have a unique “two-body” system of movement that may have implications for robotics and human biomechanics, U.S. researchers say. The scientists found that the gut of the crawling hawkmoth caterpillar moves forward independently of and in advance of the surrounding body wall and legs, instead of moving with them. This is the first time […]