The Cool Down on MSN1d
Experts thrilled after rediscovering rare species last seen nearly 80 years ago: 'No living person has … experience with this species'
This return is a sign of an increasingly healthy ecosystem. Experts thrilled after rediscovering rare species last seen ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN17d
Biologist Spots Rare, Flightless Grasshopper in Virginia for the First Time in Nearly 80 Years
A petite, flightless grasshopper once thought to be extinct has been spotted in Virginia for the first time in nearly 80 years. The last time anyone officially documented the Appalachian grasshopper ...
University of Wyoming4y
Grasshoppers of Wyoming and the West
The differential grasshopper, Melanoplus differentialis (Thomas), ranges widely in North America. Originally restricted to tall herbaceous vegetation growing in wet meadows, swales, and creek bottom ...
The Scientist2mon
How a Grasshopper Gave Up Sex, Took Up Cloning
Meet the grasshopper that has reproduced asexually for a quarter of a million years—without acquiring undue numbers of harmful mutations. Dan is a News Editor at The Scientist. He writes and edits for ...
BBC10mon
The Ant and the Grasshopper
One hot summer’s day a Grasshopper sat on a blade of grass enjoying the sunshine. ‘What a fine day,’ he said. ‘The sun’s shining and I’ve got as much grass as I can eat.’ The ...