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11 de feb. de 2016 · Cockroaches compressed their bodies between 40 and 60 percent while traversing the tiny corridors, showcasing what researchers call “an unexplored mode of locomotion—‘body-friction legged...
11 de nov. de 2015 · The team found that roaches roughly divided their efforts into short, weak bites produced by fast-moving muscle fibers and long, strong bites that required muscles to “power up” before reaching...
11 de may. de 2022 · If you squish a cockroach, it will die. Roaches do release a pheromone upon death, but it’s a warning, not an invitation. Roaches will avoid other dead roaches unless they’re starving. Stepping on roaches won’t release eggs.
7 de feb. de 2016 · February 7, 2016. • 4 min read. Have you ever stomped a roach, just to have it skitter away unscathed?* Or seen one disappear into an impossibly small crack? Now scientists have figured out how...
18 de sept. de 2014 · But it will find no respite from the neurotoxin. Minutes later, it has bucked itself onto its back, its abdomen curled into itself, the closest a roach could come to a foetal position.
13 de abr. de 2011 · Indeed, they are pretty average as insects go. But in the past year, it has been shown that cockroaches do have one special power after all.
It consists of hard yet bendable plates—capable of efficiently transmitting energy to its legs—connected by elastic membranes that allow the plates to overlap as the insect compresses. Thanks to spines that give traction when its legs are splayed, a cockroach can scuttle even at maximum scrunch.
