Ever since he can remember, Karl Jones has been fascinated by the animals that live in streams. 'I grew up next to a river in the Adelaide Hills where I spent many hours catching the creatures that ...

They look like little rowboats, cruising belly up below the surface of a pond or gentle stream. But don’t be fooled. Backswimmers are voracious predators, and when it’s time to find a new home they ...

Underwater backswimmers use their haemoglobin to help them stay stationary while waiting for prey. Backswimmers (Notonectidae) are common diving insects found around the world that exploit the ...

Winter has arrived. The trees gave a long, bright and fiery display this autumn. The yellow leaves of the field maple became an accustomed sight. But just as the autumn changes seemed to falter, frost ...

Tiny aquatic bugs hitch a ride on air-filled buoyancy bubbles for minutes at a time while they fossick for food, Australian scientists show. This means the insects, which are about the size of a grain ...

INSECTS called backswimmers resemble humans in more ways than one. Not only do they carry their oxygen packaged up in haemoglobin as we do, but like human scuba divers they have a “buoyancy vest” ...