Treehoppers Are Strange Creatures

Membracids, related to cicadas, are in the class Insecta, the order Hemiptera (“true bugs”) and the family Membracidae. Like aphids, which are also “true bugs,” adult and immature treehoppers feed on plant sap....but wtf is that on their heads??According to Biologists, "the hollow globes & spines, probably deter predators. It would be hard to grab, much less chow down on, a beast with all those

Iori Tomita Transparent Specimen Art

Iori Tomita uses a special technique where he turns the bodies of marine organisms translucent. He then injects dyes into their skeletons to produce these incredibly dramatic and educational biological specimens...[VIA]

AGA 2010 Aquascaping Contest

Here are the results from the AGA Aquascaping Awards 20101st Place-432 Litre: Michael G.W. Wong, North Point Hong Kong2nd Place:400 Litre: Pasquale Buonpane, Piedimonte Matese CE Italy3rd Place:412 Litre: Kam Wong, North Point Hong Kongother tanks to note:648 Litre: Yu-Lin Chen, Hsinchu City, Taiwan870 Litre: Chow Wai Sun, Hong Kong - China