Male stalk-eyed flies with longer eyestalks are more attractive to females and more intimidating to males — but males with a genetic variant that causes shorter eyestalks are fiercer fighters In ...

Male stalk-eyed flies with shorter eyestalks compensate by being more aggressive to attract females who generally prefer ...

In stalk-eyed flies, longer eyestalks attract the ladies. Females prefer males with longer eyestalks, and other males are less likely to fight them for access to females. But some males have a ...

In the stalk-eyed fly world, it’s the males with longer eyestalks that get the females. Not only do the females prefer males with longer antennae dotted eye-stalks, but other males are also less ...

What's as big as an alligator, with the body of a millipede, the head of a centipede and the eyestalks of a crab? That would be Arthropleura, believed to be the largest bug to ever exist. But fear not ...

In the stalk-eyed fly world, it’s the males with longer eyestalks that get the females. Not only do the females prefer males with longer antennae dotted eye-stalks, but other males are also less ...

A recent study in Physical Review Letters explores the effects of ultralight dark matter in extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), which could be detected by future space-based gravitational wave ...

For several decades, scientists tried to uncover the mystery of a giant millipede-like creature called Arthropleura. The ...

Male stalk-eyed flies fight to protect their access to food and females. The longer their eyestalks, the more attractive they are to females and the more intimidating they are to males. However, some ...

A confrontation between stalk-eyed flies. (Gerald Wilkinson via SWNS) By Stephen Beech via SWNS Ugly flies make up for being less attractive by fighting more fiercely, according to a new study.