Orchid mantises: Research discovers their petal-shaped femoral lobes may actually be used for gliding

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Nov 30, 2023, 8:31 am234 pts
In a study published in Current Biology, researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with their collaborators, reveal a groundbreaking discovery: Morphology of the orchid mantis' petal-shaped femoral lobes actually serves as structures for…

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