A white-necked jacobin hummingbird chick surprises scientists, scaring away wasps by mimicking a poisonous caterpillar.
Predators in the forest understory are learning a strange new lesson: sometimes that ominous hiss in the leaf litter is not a snake at all, but a moth that has not even finished growing its wings.
Biomimetics is an interdisciplinary field in which principles from engineering, chemistry and biology are applied to the synthesis of materials, synthetic systems or machines that have functions that ...