Baby giant water bugs, like true bugs, have piercing-sucking mouthparts. Water bugs catch small fish, stab them with their beak-like mouthparts and squirt special juices into the fish. These juices change the fish's insides into a soft goo - perfect for 'babies' to slurp up.
Salt mine yields oldest known living things
Salt mine yields oldest known living things Dormant bacterial spores that had been trapped in
salt crystals for 250 million years were found more than 500 metres
underground in a salt mine in New Mexico. The microbes have been
revived and are the oldest living things yet discovered. Salt
loving or "halophilic" microbes are a common part of most
people’s diets, although people don’t know this. Think
what you’re eating next time you sprinkle salt on your
food! OCTOBER 19, 2000
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