A few years ago, we showed you a strange natural construction found in the Peruvian rainforest Peru. It was an egg case from an unidentified creature. Later, we found out it was a yet-unclassified spider, so the egg case...

Wildlife photographer Jeff Cremer of the Tambopata Research Center is an occasional contributor to N...

A team at PrakashLab at Stanford University have d...  ...squo;s called the Foldscope.Aaron Pomeranz of the Tambopata Research Center in the Peruvian Amazon (previousl...

Jeff Cremer of the Tambopata Research Center in the Peruvian Amazon (previousl...

Wildlife photographer Jeff Cremer found something very unusual in the Peruvian rain forest: little glowing green dots. They were larva, and they appeared to have teeth! So far, the species has not been clearly identified...

[http://youtu.be/nYDduHROE_M] (YouTube link)Jeff C...  ....be/nYDduHROE_M] (YouTube link)Jeff Cremer of the Tambopata Research Center in Peru (the folks who found the...

A few months ago, we showed you this strange struc...  ...er, a fungus, or space aliens? Researchers at the Tambopata

Have you ever seen anything like this? Chemical ecologist Troy Alexander, doing research in the Peruvian Amazon, found what appears to be an insect egg case with a structure around it that looking surprisingly like a fen...

You can see the resemblance, can't you? This is a Megalopyge opercularis, or flannel moth caterpillar. It was spotted by photographer Jeff Cremer and biologist Phil Torres in the Peruvian rainforest. They look furry, and...

This wonder of nature is a urodid moth cocoon. What advantage does this screen offer that a full cocoon doesn't? Phil Torres, a biologist, speculates:I couldn’t find a lot of literature on these guys, but my best g...