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  1. www.nytimes.com › 2024/03/01 › scienceDaddy Longlegs Have Been Hiding Extra Eyes From Us

    Mar 1, 2024 · March 1, 2024. Guilherme Gainett, then a biologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was looking through a microscope at the embryo of a daddy longlegs when he saw it — or, rather, saw ...

  2. www.smithsonianmag.com › smart-news › daddy-longlegsDaddy Longlegs Have Four Extra, Hidden Eyes, Researchers Say

    Mar 19, 2024 · The hidden pairs of eyes weren’t a total surprise to the researchers. In 2014, a 305-million-year-old fossilized daddy longlegs found in eastern France had four total eyes —two more than today ...

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  4. www.sciencenews.org › article › daddy-longlegs-howA species of daddy longlegs has been hiding four extra eyes

    Mar 14, 2024 · Despite its two-eyed appearance, Phalangium opilio has six peepers. The four extra eyes — leftovers of evolution — shed light on the evolutionary history of daddy longlegs. ljphoto7/iStock ...

  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Phalangium_opilioPhalangium opilio - Wikipedia

    P. opilio is a generalist predator and scavenger that feeds on soft-bodied animals found in crops, such as aphids, caterpillars, leafhoppers, beetle larvae, and mites. Sometimes it may also scavenge on hard-bodied animals, such as various arthropods, including other harvestmen. [6]

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  7. biocontrol.entomology.cornell.edu › PhalangiumPhalangium opilio - Cornell University

    Bishop, S. C. 1949. The Phalangida (Opiliones) of New York, with special reference to the species of the Edmund Niles Huyck Preserve, Rensselaerville, New York. Rochester Academy of Science. Proceedings 9: 159–235. Clingenpeel, L. W. and A. L. Edgar. 1966. Certain ecological aspects of Phalangium opilio (Arthropoda: Opiliones). Papers of the ...

  8. royalsocietypublishing.org › doi › 10The genome of a daddy-long-legs (Opiliones) illuminates the ...

    Aug 4, 2021 · (a) Phalangium opilio draft genome assembly. The draft assembly of the P. opilio genome comprises 580.4 Mbp (37.5% GC content) in 5137 scaffolds (N50: 211 089) and 8349 contigs (N50: 127 429; electronic supplementary material, figure S1 and table S5). The predicted genome repetitiveness is 54.4% and estimated heterozygosity is 1.24%.

  9. www.livescience.com › scientists-create-daddyMutant 'daddy shortlegs' created in a lab | Live Science

    Aug 16, 2021 · A daddy longlegs (Phalangium opilio) shows off its long and flexible legs. ... Car-size asteroid discovered 2 days ago flies by Earth at 1/30th the distance of the moon. 1. ... , New York, NY ...