No, your eyes are not deceiving you. Some moths have evolved the ability to make noise at bats using their genital structures.

And apparently it's so useful that this ability has emerged, separately, again and again in different species of hawkmoths.

According to new research, these moths have evolved the ability to scream at bats using their genitals independently as many as seven times over 30 million years – and at least three distinct anatomical mechanisms have emerged, producing different kinds of potentially sonar-jamming ultrasound.

Fossil of platypus-like animal from dinosaur era unearthed in China. Scientists have found the earliest-known fossil of a mammal-like animal that lived more than 160 million years ago in the mid-Jurassic period and may have hunted fish and salamander.

In a ‘pretty rare’ move, Canada is adding over a dozen new aquatic creatures to the Species at Risk Act.

Boater rescues tired wallaby swimming out to sea more than 100 metres [328 feet] offshore. When seagulls started madly squawking near the Portland marina in western Victoria, Matt Smith thought they'd found a dog in the water. He was in for a surprise. Wallabies, being much shorter, more compact, and more densely-furred than kangaroos are much poorer swimmers than kangaroos.

Cave divers search for rare ghost bats after flooding. Cave divers abseil into the abyss searching for signs of Australia's largest carnivorous bat, to save it from going locally extinct in outback Queensland.

Original link: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/coyote-love-grief-science

Botswana's UNESCO wetlands offer lessons. What Botswana's pristine wetlands and waterways are teaching us about climate change, over-extraction and conservation.

These tiny snakes cartwheel to escape danger "Cartwheeling seems like it should require both arms and legs. But some itty-bitty snakes in Southeast Asia manage it without either."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudorabdion_longiceps

Best wet season in decades gives life to living medicine cabinet. After a particularly wet season, wildflowers and other plant life along the Darling-Baaka River have flourished in numbers not seen for decades, according to local Barkindji and Malyangapa tour guide Dave Doyle.

Inside the mission to save critically endangered orangutans from fire. On Borneo, many believe fires threatening critically endangered orangutans are being deliberately lit to clear land for palm oil plantations.

50 years of spotting southern right whales off Great Australian Bight. From Western Australia's capital to South Australia's far west coast, scientists have collated 50 years' worth of data on the southern right whale to track changes to breeding cycles.