Use the microsurgery curved scissors to cut the tied lobe just above the suture (see Supplementary Video 8 online). The only source of blood should be the resected lobe; no bleeding should come ...

Tomoki Matsuzawa (then an undergraduate) and Associate Professor Junji Konuma from Toho University’s Department of Biology conducted the first quantitative study of female earwig forceps.

The team measured the head, thorax, abdomen, and bilateral forceps dimensions and analyzed shape differences in both sexes. They found that males have thick, short, and curved forceps, while ...