Picture an Antarctic animal and most people think of penguins, but there is a flightless midge, the only known insect native ...
Antarctica’s only native insect could provide inspiration for how humans could travel into deep space. The tiny midge called ...
The tiny flightless Antarctic midge has developed its own method of coping with freezing temperatures. The post Antartica’s ...
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If a tiny, flightless midge establishes itself on mainland Antarctica, it could unleash outsized changes on the continent’s biodiversity, researchers from the University of Birmingham and British ...
Since 2004, University Distinguished Professor of Biology Richard Lee has studied this extremeophile, the Antarctic midge, Belgica antarctica. This wingless midge is the only true insect found ...
How the Antarctic midge copes with freezing temperatures could hold clues for humans about subjects like cryopreservation, ...