Most people think of moths as small insects fluttering across porch lights, but some species greatly challenge that image.

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Deep in the Amazon jungle, ecologist Leandro Moraes filmed a moth sucking the tears out of a sleeping antbird's eye. The delicately-performed nighttime feeding is a rarely seen event, wrote Moraes in ...

The name clearwing comes from the fact that there are sections of the moth’s wing that are transparent, like a dragonfly. The hummingbird part comes from the moth’s flight among flowers. / PHOTO BY ...

In an oddly poetic act, moths will on occasion drink the tears from the eyes of a sleeping bird. Sounds harmless, but this rare interaction is an unmistakably one-sided affair. Scientists actually ...

A researcher captured rare video of a moth in the Amazon drinking tears from a sleeping bird’s eye, which the insect likely does to get nutrients like sodium and protein, according to a new report in ...

On a research expedition in a forest along the Solimões River in central Amazonia, a researcher came across a scene that is part fairy-tale, part horror movie and quite simply peculiar. In the dead of ...

Many Americans regard both nickels and pennies as more nuisance than currency. The typical household is sitting on $60 to $90 in neglected coins, enough to fill one or two pint-size beer mugs, ...

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