Sleeping fruit flies regularly stick out and retract their proboscises to help the movement of waste out of their body and to keep themselves healthy. The function of sleep is not well understood.

Konstantin Kornev and his colleagues at Clemson University in South Carolina created 3D images of hawk moth (Manduca sexta) proboscises, and developed a model of saliva’s effect on their ...

The prevailing (and very logical) theory about this handy appendage is that butterflies and moths evolved their proboscises in response to plants that developed flowers. But that theory might be ...

Hawk moths are known for their ability to travel incredible distances and for their extremely long proboscises — straw-like tongues from which they guzzle nectar. When a hawk moth drinks from a ...

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No, really, that's what "Rhinorex" means. He's sovereign of the schnozes, baron of the beaks, and prince of the proboscises. The plant-eating dinosaur lived about 75 million years ago ...

Alongside Leonardo Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, disc-shaped galaxies, or the cochlea of the human ear, scientists can now count sap-feeding butterfly proboscises as aligned with the Golden Ratio.

Irate males guffaw loudly through their ginormous proboscises beside dozing female elephant seals who nurse their dark-hued offspring while absorbing solar energy. Meanwhile, scores of human ...