The assassin bug, beneath its creepy camouflage, uses a needle-like mouthpart to paralyze prey and suck out their liquefied insides.

Unlike land spiders, sea spiders do not spin webs or dig burrows. Instead, they use a specialized tubular mouthpart called a proboscis to suck up their prey, such as sea anemones, jellyfish, and other ...

In the Ocean Hall some 100 sea creatures reside preserved in glass jars. Each specimen has its own unique traits, and together the collection represents the vast diversity of sea life. Here is a ...

It also keeps them well moisturized. If the larva ends up submerged, it can still chow down. It sweeps slime particles out of the water with a hairy mouthpart called the labrum and rakes them in with ...

The newly hatched maggots are white and worm-like, with a segmented body, head, and tail. They have a mouthpart that they use to feed on decaying organic matter. Maggots feed voraciously, multiplying ...